[m-rev.] for review: www: add summary to .NET page

[Fergus Henderson]

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w3/include/dotnet.inc:
	Add a summary at the top (mostly recycled from the NEWS file for 0.10).

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RCS file: /home/mercury1/repository/w3/include/dotnet.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.4
diff -u -d -r1.4 dotnet.inc
--- w3/include/dotnet.inc	2001/03/23 23:05:40	1.4
+++ w3/include/dotnet.inc	2001/04/05 19:02:28
@@ -1,11 +1,33 @@
 <h2> Mercury on .NET </h2>
 
+<h3> Summary </h3>
+
+The Mercury compiler has a new back-end that targets
+the <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/">Microsoft .NET platform</a>.
+<p>
+
+Thanks to Microsoft's generous and ongoing support, both financial
+and otherwise, we've been able to port Mercury to Microsoft's new
+.NET system.  There's a new back-end for the Mercury compiler,
+based on the `--high-level-code' back-end, that compiles to IL, the
+Microsoft .NET Intermediate Language.
+<p>
+
+This back-end is enabled using the new `--target il' option
+(or just `--il' for short), or the `ilc' grade.
+<p>
+
+This is still work in progress.
+Compiler support for this new back-end is mostly complete,
+but large parts of the standard library are still not yet
+implemented for this new port.
+<p>
+
 <h3> Status </h3>
 
 The <a href="<? echo $root ?>/download/release.html">current release</a>
 of the Mercury compiler includes preliminary support for generating code
-for the 
-<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/net/">Microsoft .NET platform</a>.
+for .NET.
 It also includes a partial port of the Mercury library and runtime to .NET.
 
 <h4> The bad news </h4>

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