[mercury-users] Mercury needs a Tutorial

[David Powers]

Ralph Becket said:
> Peeters Wim wrote on 11 Feb:
> > Yeah !  But higher order programming isn't exactly easy ot understand (for 
    a
> > newcomer), so you probably should focus on first order programming in the
> > "beginners-manual".
> 
> There's a smashing paper by John Hughes called "Why Functional
> Programming Matters" which provides an excellent tutorial on HOP.  I
> think I'll refer readers to that in the appropriate chapter (which
> will be delivered towards the end).  I can make a copy available to
> anyone who wants to read it.

Please do - that would be most helpful.

As a longstanding advocate of Logic Programming and very much aware of the 
problems and issues, I welcome the solutions Mercury provides and although I 
have read some stuff on it I have never found the motivation to install and use 
it.  A tutorial should provide the motivation I need, and may convince me to 
teach Mercury instead of Prolog (I'm also trying to decide between Haskell and 
Lisp/Scheme).

I'll try to comment on tutorial drafts as they are posted.

dP
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