[m-users.] Mercury Crash Course

[emacstheviking]

Yes, thanks for writing it. I learned a lot from that single piece of work,
particularyl regarding functions which I have not really used much yet
apart from sin some FFI code.

Mercury *is* a challenge but I am determined to create a game with it for
many reason:
(a) I've always wanted to work for Atari as a kid!
(b) It's more fun that writing code you get paid to write
(c) Less risky than C/C++

It's that last point that supplies the ice picks to get me up the almost
impassable north-face of the learning curve!
I've used C and C++ for many many years and although C++ has the RAII
pattern I dread creating some kind of horrid bug related to memory or
dangly pointers.
Hence attempting to use Mercury. I tried Haskell but after a decade of
abuse at its ahnds I have decided that its not the one for me.

Further.....



On Mon, 5 Aug 2019 at 06:39, Daniel Gross <grossd18 at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Julian,
>
> First, thank you for writing a tutorial -- its crucially needed for
> newcomers.
>
> Personally, as a newcomer, i would suggest, adding a chapter on setting up
> a development environment, including, on how to debug.
>
> I would also consider adding a comparison to prolog chapter, and in
> particular where the various additional mercury features make a difference.
> As well as what can be done in prolog and not in mercury, say, in
> relational reading of predicates.
>
> thanks,
>
> Daniel
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