Re: [m-users.] Correct use of solutions.

Volker Wysk <[email protected]> Mon, 31 Jul 2023 12:00:56 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.mercury.general
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Am Montag, dem 31.07.2023 um 10:55 +0100 schrieb 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.

You mean the rock solid source code you write with it?

V.

> 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 <[email protected]> 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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