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

[Tyson Dowd]

Here's an incremental diff of the changes people have requested. 

reports.inc and events.inc are also included this time.

diff -u icfp2000.html icfp2000.html
--- icfp2000.html
+++ icfp2000.html
@@ -42,11 +42,9 @@
 tracer.  The ray tracer could be implemented in any language, and the  
 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
-1999 programming contest at
-http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/icfp/results.html
-for more information).
+systems quickly should give an advantage.  (see the 
+<a href="http://www.eecs.harvard.edu/~nr/icfp/results.html">report</a>
+on the 1999 programming contest for more information).
 
 <H3>The Team</H3>
 
@@ -74,7 +72,7 @@
 communication between distrubuted team members took place via email (the
 England and Belgium team members spoke occasionally by phone).
 <p>
-It should be remembered that Western Europe and Melbourne, Australia are
+It should be remembered that Europe and Australia are
 nearly 12 hours apart in time-zones, so for nearly the entire 72 hours
 of the contest there was someone, somewhere in the world working on our
 entry.  However, given the preferred working habits of some of the
@@ -123,7 +121,7 @@
 
 <H3>Using Mercury</H3>
 
-The distrubuted nature of the entry and the lack of problems encountered
+The distributed nature of the entry and the lack of problems encountered
 due to the distribution of team members is a feather in the cap of the  
 Mercury language.  The strong type and mode system ensured that if an
 interface between distinct parts of the ray tracer changed, the spots  
diff -u news/newsdb.inc news/newsdb.inc
--- news/newsdb.inc
+++ news/newsdb.inc
@@ -22,7 +22,7 @@
 
 $newsdb = array(
 
-"04 Oct 2000" => array("Events and Reports",
+"05 Oct 2000" => array("Events and Reports",
 
 "Two new sections have been added to the web site.  The events section
 will give information about events Mercury has been involved in -- we
only in patch2:
--- /dev/null	Tue May 16 14:50:59 2000
+++ reports.inc	Thu Oct  5 16:28:29 2000
@@ -0,0 +1,26 @@
+<h2>Mercury Reports</h2>
+
+<i>Looking for technical reports?</i>  See the 
+<a href="papers.html">papers</a> of the web site.
+
+<p>
+
+Please note that Mercury meetings are not always regularly scheduled --
+the absence of a meeting probably indicates people travelling, busy
+writing papers or implementing the system.  The 
+<a href="<? echo $root ?>/mailing-lists/mailing-lists.html">
+mailing list archives</a>
+are the best place to go to check the activity of the developers.
+
+<p>
+
+<table>
+<?
+include "$root/news/reportsdb.inc";
+while ( (list($date, $item) = each($reportsdb))) {
+		reportitem($date, $item);
+}
+?>
+</table>
+
+<p>
only in patch2:
--- /dev/null	Tue May 16 14:50:59 2000
+++ events.inc	Wed Oct  4 12:47:08 2000
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+<h2>Mercury Events</h2>
+
+<p>
+<ul>
+<li> 	<strong>ICFP 2000 Competition</strong> <br>
+	Mercury came 4th in the International Conference of Functional
+	Programming 2000 programming competition.<p>
+
+	You can read about our entry <a href="events/icfp2000.html">here</a>.
+	<p>
+
+</ul>
+<p>
-- 
       Tyson Dowd           # 
                            #  Surreal humour isn't everyone's cup of fur.
     trd at cs.mu.oz.au        # 
http://www.cs.mu.oz.au/~trd #
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