[m-users.] What's special about Mercury?

[Volker Wysk]

Am Donnerstag, den 20.06.2019, 20:26 -0500 schrieb
jfondren at minimaltype.com:
> Howdy,
> 
> I'm writing a Mercury tutorial and thought I'd have a sales pitch
> early 
> in it, since hello-world type code makes Mercury look bad. I'd 
> appreciate any feedback you have on the following. The tutorial
> itself 
> won't be done for a while.

FWIW, as a logic language, it's very declarative. You specify "what",
not "how" (like in an imperative language). It appears to me, that
Mercury goes especially far with that principle (further than Prolog).

Bye
V.W.