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

[Julien Fischer]

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007, Peter Wang wrote:

> 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).")

That's fine.

>>
>> 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 ;-)

Doesn't stop you mentioning it though.

Julien.
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