[mercury-users] mercury website (was Suggestion: new operator)

[Mattias Waldau]

Sorry, I rephrase: In any other USED language.

I really thinks the thread about "field updates" shows my point.

The world has changed, 10 years ago, every langauge has to be more or less
self contained, incl GUI, DB and all. The reason was that then there were no
good way of  programming using multiple langauges, no defined ways on how to
interface. Debugging was hopeless.

CORBA and COM changed that a little bit, even if they aren't widely used.
XML, SOAP will change this much more.

I think, we should expect Mercury to be used as back-end languages behind
Java, VBA or similar. And some of these people must be able to understand
and write Mercury-code!

/mattias

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-mercury-users at cs.mu.OZ.AU
[mailto:owner-mercury-users at cs.mu.OZ.AU]On Behalf Of Richard A. O'Keefe
Sent: Monday, October 23, 2000 11:54 PM
To: mercury-users at cs.mu.OZ.AU
Subject: RE: [mercury-users] mercury website (was Suggestion: new
operator)


"Mattias Waldau" <mattias.waldau at abc.se> wrote about using '@':

	why invent a new operator not found in any other language?

But it *is* found in at least one other language: Eiffel.
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