[m-rev.] for review: announce Erlang back-end on web site

[Peter Wang]

Estimated hours taken: 0.1
Branches: main

news/newsdb.inc:
	Announce Erlang back-end.

Index: news/newsdb.inc
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RCS file: /home/mercury/mercury1/repository/w3/news/newsdb.inc,v
retrieving revision 1.101
diff -u -r1.101 newsdb.inc
--- news/newsdb.inc	6 Mar 2007 04:23:21 -0000	1.101
+++ news/newsdb.inc	3 Aug 2007 07:17:11 -0000
@@ -22,6 +22,14 @@
 
 $newsdb = array(
 
+"3 August 2007" => array("Erlang backend",
+
+"There's a new back-end for the Mercury compiler that compiles to Erlang
+source code, which can be run on the Erlang runtime system.  The goal is to
+take advantage of the Erlang implementation's support for writing scalable and
+reliable server programs.  This back-end was implemented by Mission Critical
+Australia."),
+
 "6 March 2007" => array("Remove support for Unicode characters in string literals",
 
 "This feature has been removed because of concerns that it might lead users
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