[mercury-users] This Year's Mercury Entry for the ICF 2001 Contest

[Michael Day]

> Why not just use Prolog?  Who wants to bugger around with
> declarations and types and stuff just for scripting? For
> programs that size, surely you can get it right without
> too much help from the interpreter?

Mercury can infer the declarations, and I like types :) And anyway, small
scripts have a tendency to grow, an errors in even small scripts can cause
problems, as Ralph demonstrated...

Michael


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