[mercury-users] Modes in "int" module.

Peter Wang wangp at students.csse.unimelb.edu.au
Fri Jul 13 11:34:28 AEST 2007


On 2007-07-12, doug.auclair at logicaltypes.com <doug.auclair at logicaltypes.com> wrote:
> Dear Peter, you wrote:
> 
> >The releases of the day have an alpha-quality Erlang backend now. 
> 
> OH-MY-GOODNESS!  Any particular reason to choose Erlang? Is this an
> effort to adopt the Erlang (functionally-pure) concurrency model?

Erlang has a runtime implementation focussed on building concurrent,
highly scalable, fault-tolerant systems.  So it offers something that
the existing Mercury backends weren't designed for.

> I'm currently sitting next to a coworker on my current project that
> is an Erlang coder.  Will there also be an Erlang-Mercury FLI?

Yes, it's there.

Peter
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