[m-rev.] for review: announce Erlang back-end on web site

[Julien Fischer]

On Fri, 3 Aug 2007, Peter Wang wrote:

> Estimated hours taken: 0.1
> Branches: main
>
> news/newsdb.inc:
> 	Announce Erlang back-end.
>
> Index: news/newsdb.inc
> ===================================================================
> RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/w3/news/newsdb.inc,v
> retrieving revision 1.101
> diff -u -r1.101 newsdb.inc
> --- news/newsdb.inc	6 Mar 2007 04:23:21 -0000	1.101
> +++ news/newsdb.inc	3 Aug 2007 07:17:11 -0000
> @@ -22,6 +22,14 @@
>
> $newsdb = array(
>
> +"3 August 2007" => array("Erlang backend",
> +
> +"There's a new back-end for the Mercury compiler that compiles to Erlang
> +source code, which can be run on the Erlang runtime system.  The goal is to
> +take advantage of the Erlang implementation's support for writing scalable and
> +reliable server programs.

The Erlang implementation writes the scalable and reliable server 
programs?

> This back-end was implemented by Mission Critical
> +Australia."),

Who? ;-)


Rather than saying, "The goal is ...", I would begin that:

 	This allows ... <and then describe why this feature would be
 	advantegeous to Mercury programmers>.

I guess another reason is that it allows for interoperability between
Mercury and Erlang code, right?

Julien.
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