[mercury-users] Mercury needs a Tutorial

[Fergus Henderson]

On 11-Feb-1999, Tyson Dowd <trd at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 11-Feb-1999, Ralph Becket <rwab1 at cam.sri.com> wrote:
> > 5. How far is the tutorial expected to take people?
> 
> As far as it can.  There is quite a lot to cover, but I think you can
> safely leave out typeclasses, nested modules, the foreign language
> interface, that sort of thing.  Types, modes, modules, determinism,
> predicates, functions, conjunction, disjunction and negation
> are probably enough (I've probably forgotten something really important).

Yes ;-)
Two other really important things that should be covered, IMHO,
are if-then-else and basic I/O.

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