I've been learning to use Mercury for about two years now, using it pretty much every day for an hour or three, towards building a language transpiler, but that's another story! Along the way, I soon found out that not many people have heard of Mercury, it started life in 1995, three years before Haskell. It's time is coming, especially if I can help the cause.
While parts of it are still almost a complete mystery to me (inst, modes, higher-order things) I have however built up a usable working knowledge of it to the point where I think I might at least be able to help others learn it.
The one thing that I found hard to find was good clear concise examples of some of the features of the language, the official documentation is the definitive reference and as such, not particularly friendly towards people learning the language who may not always understand the terminology. Some of it is very high-level, at least for me, althought learning it has really improved my skills and knowledge, and continues to do so.
To that end, and to satisfy my own learning, I have decided to formally start working my way through the libraries that I use a lot, and some I don't, and produce some simple working examples using them. This will serve as both a source of learning materials for some, and reference and revision for me!
Where possible, I have kept to the same format in all folders, a single file
called sample.m which can be built with:
$ mmc sample
and then run as:
$ ./sample
Before running I encourage you to read the source code as some sample programs will have command line options and/or values that you can pass to affect the output of the sample.
Thanks.