[m-dev.] for review: add events and reports to web page.

[Tyson Dowd]

On 04-Oct-2000, Zoltan Somogyi <zs at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 04-Oct-2000, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> > Index: information/events/icfp2000.html
> 
> I will comment only on the text; someone else should review the scripts.
> 
> > +team could consist of any size.  The short time frame of the contest
> > +meant that programming languages that help programmers to build complex
> > +systems quickly, should be more advantageous to use then more efficient
> > +but less software engineering friendly languages (see the report on the
> 
> What do you mean by "software engineering friendly language"?
> 
> I think you want to say that flexibility-oriented languages are better suited
> for a context like this than safety-oriented languages. Mercury is a
> safety-oriented language.

Flexibility helps, but safety was the big thing.

So I think this is better said:

The short time frame of the contest
meant that programming languages that help programmers to build complex
systems quickly should give an advantage.  (see the report on the
1999 programming contest at
http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/icfp/results.html
for more information).

> > We recommend using the type system to prevent the unit vector
> > +error if anyone wants to write a ray-tracer in Mercury in the future.
> 
> What do you mean by "unit vector" here? A vector whose magnitude is 1?
 
Yes.

Using 
	:- type unit_vector ---> unit(vector).

would have helped us a lot, had we started using it from the start.


> > +due to the distribution of team members is a feather in the cap of the  
> > +Mercury language.
> 
> I would not put this so strongly; several other languages share this property.

Hmm...

Surely they can (and already have) written their own web pages then!

I like putting it this strongly -- we did have the largest team.

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