[mercury-users] The Mercury Language

[Roy Ward]

on 6/9/00 6:57 PM, Tennessee at tjleeuw at students.cs.mu.oz.au wrote:
> Better docs would also be good! I would have given up on it by now if there
> hadn't been people around to help me. No way could I have just picked it
> up.

Actually I've found the docs to be mostly excellent
(admittedly I've touched prolog somewhere in the dim past,
and I'm good at picking up 'pure' languages). Possibly
something more in between the introduction and the reference
manual would be nice (no, I'm _not_ volunteering).

About getting Mercury used, I refused point blank at my
job (admittedly a research project) to use Java for some
non-trivial symbolic processing (a planner) on the basis
that it was an inappropriate language for the task. I went
through the other options and it 'turned out' that Mercury
came out as the best one. I had something of an advantage,
because no one else wanted to do the planner.

Of course, now someone else in my group has to learn Mercury
so that they can read and help mantain my code :-).

I'm now trying to arrange to use Mercury for as much of my
new code as possible.

Cheers,
Roy Ward.

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