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

[Peter Wang]

On 03/08/07, Julien Fischer <juliensf at csse.unimelb.edu.au> wrote:
>
> 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?

_support for_

>
> Rather than saying, "The goal is ...", I would begin that:
>
>         This allows ... <and then describe why this feature would be
>         advantegeous to Mercury programmers>.

This implies we've reached the goal, but that's still to be determined.

+"There's a new back-end for the Mercury compiler that compiles to Erlang, so
+that Mercury programs can run on the Erlang runtime system.  The goal is to
+allow Mercury programs to take advantage of the Erlang implementation's support
+for scalable and reliable server programs.  This back-end was implemented by
+Mission Critical IT (Australia).")

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

Sure, but I don't think there's a huge bulk of code in either language
that people are itching to get access to ;-)

Peter
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