[m-users.] Correct use of solutions.

[Sean Charles (emacstheviking)]

Agreed. I was reading your code for that the other day actually.

As much as I sometimes still struggle with things, Mercury is now me go-to language for things larger than a quick throwaway python script.

I just like the rock solid output from it.

Douglas Adams' "Deep Thought" computer was obviously programmed using Mercury, by mice. He just didn't know it.


> On 31 Jul 2023, at 10:52, Volker Wysk <post at volker-wysk.de> wrote:
> 
> Am Montag, dem 31.07.2023 um 11:58 +1000 schrieb Mark Brown:
>> In all seriousness, I think SWI Prolog is an excellent system with
>> which to implement a compiler. Even if intending to build a compiler
>> in Mercury in the long term, rapidly prototyping (parts of) it in
>> Prolog is often an excellent approach to take in my opinion.
> 
> I thought that, too. But when I rapidly prototyped my command line parser in
> Prolog, I found that I missed types, determinism categories, modes...
> Declarative IO is something like this, too, but wasn't important for that
> command line parser. Things that help to get your head straight. I came to
> the conclusion that doing it "right" from the beginning is better.
> 
> (That parser turned out to be much more involved than I thought.)
> 
> But it's a matter of taste, I guess.
> 
> Bye
> Volker
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