[mercury-users] "What do you think about Mercury ?"

[Tyson Dowd]

On 09-Sep-1999, Fergus Henderson <fjh at cs.mu.OZ.AU> wrote:
> On 27-Aug-1999, Renaud Paquay <rpa at miscrit.be> wrote:
> > 
> > > - What weaknesses/drawbacks do you find in Mercury ?
> ...
> > No "native" support for exceptions
> 
> Thanks for the feedback.
> 
> In the latest development version, the exception handling stuff
> has now been moved from extras/exceptions into the standard library.
> The standard error/1 predicate now throws an exception.
> 
> However, more work is still needed to get some of the standard library
> predicates to report errors by throwing exceptions rather than aborting
> execution.
> 
> > > - What would you change in the language/implementation ?
> ...
> > Don't use "C" as a "portable assembler"
> 
> Could you elaborate here?  What don't you like about that?
> As a user, why do you care how the implementation works?

Because it's so slow.  Particularly under NT.

Going via C adds a lot of I/O and process creation.

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