[m-rev.] for review: add link to sample from README.md

[Julien Fischer]

Hi Zoltan,

On Fri, 7 Jan 2022, Zoltan Somogyi wrote:

> On Mon, 3 Jan 2022 14:55:52 +1100 (AEDT), Julien Fischer <jfischer at opturion.com> wrote:
>> I am going to commit this one; I will deal with any review comments
>> post-commit.
>
> You can consider this diff to be a post-commit review of all your
> recent changes to .md files. I await your post-commit reviews/changes.

Those changes seem fine.

> In the process of making these changes, I found that the about/backends
> page on mercurylang.org is *very* out of date.

Yes.

> We should note that the Erlang, MSIL and gcc backends are neither
> active nor dormant but deleted, we should probably delete all
> reference to the bytecode backend (since it was never useful, noone
> can be missing it), and update the references to the Java and C#
> backends. (The last update to the page was in 2013.)

The Erlang back is still present in the current stable release; however
it won't be in the next.

> I could make the changes to the text, but I don't do pixel-counting,
> so the page will then lose its current structure. Does anyone volunteer
> to restore the (mobile-hostile) current structure afterward, or to do the
> whole job? Or are people fine with losing the column structure?

Feel free to change the text; I can take a look at any resultant layout
problems.

Another issue with the website: the benchmarks section either needs to
be moved or at the least needs a disclaimer that the benchmarks (and
results) it contains are *really* old.  (I guess that those benchmarks
were used in one of the early Mercury papers, so a reference to whatever
paper it was would be useful.)

Julien.