[mercury-users] Is there a sockets library ?

Tomas By t.by at dcs.shef.ac.uk
Tue Feb 2 00:56:02 AEDT 1999


Michel Vanden Bossche writes:
> A short note on ARGo.
> 
> [...]
> 
> Our main objectives are:
> 
> 1. the development of a commercially viable version of Mercury running
> under NT and well integrated with COM (Component Object Model);
> 
> 2. development of state-of-the-art debugging tools for Mercury;
> 
> 3. the study of programming methodology for Mercury, involving development
> of some substantial applications;
> 
> 4. the study of longer term issues.
> 
> The "vision" is that Mercury is one of the best idea to develop - much
> more scientifically (i.e. with a better balance bewteen fundamentalism and
> pragmatism)- mission-critical or business-critical applications. The
> tactic is to have a fairly robust and commercially acceptable environment
> on NT, due to the momentum of that platform (and Melbourne has done and is
> doing an outstanding job on Unix).

Thanks for the info. Very interesting. Can you tell us anything about
your progress?

/Tomas



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