[m-users.] C/C++ Programmers Intro to Mercury Slides

[Tomas By]

Hi again,

After a bit of googling, it seems both `purely' concepts are clear, and 
I assume you explain the meanings in your talk.

Another comment: you say that `all control flow is through functions,' 
but what about back-tracking?

/Tomas



On 2016-07-06 00:13, Tomas By wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My immediate question is: did you have any success at all
> communicating anything useful about Mercury to people who only knew
> C[++] ?
> 
> A couple of comments: `purely functional' may have some conventional
> meaning I guess, but I am not sure what `purely logical' would mean,
> and it seems contradictory to say Mercury is both `purely X' and
> `purely Y'
> 
> Also, it might be better to talk about pattern matching rather than
> unification. Two sides of the same coin, or something, but the former
> seems more intuitively graspable.
> 
> /Tomas
> 
> 
> 
> On 2016-07-05 21:51, Martin McDonough wrote:
>> I recently gave a presentation introducing C/C++ programmers to
>> Mercury. I thought I would share it, I've posted the slides on my
>> website:
>> 
>> http://flyingjester.net/other/mercury.pdf
>> 
>> Note that I avoid several concepts on purpose just to keep the
>> presentation more understandable to people who've never seen or used
>> Mercury before.
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