Something you might find interesting to look at is Rego, a datalog-derived language been used for writing security policies. Rego is dynamically typed, so no real protection. It's input is basically JSON and it can apply JSON-Schema, but that's it. I think it would be interesting to look at Rego as a restricted version of this and see what types buys for a Rego user. It's probably one of the larger areas of logic programming and has brought people into the fold, so to speak.
ElectroSlayer
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Oh wow, Zoltan was one of my lecturers at UniMelb, and in one semester we were tasked with learning his Mercury language. So good to see it thriving still.
zeafoamrun
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I TA-ed for Zoltan's 2nd year "learning how to use bash/gdb/etc" class and it was a lot of fun. I hope they're still teaching that class.
angry_octet
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It was called "433-252 Software Engineering Principles & Tools" until ~2008 I think (433-244 before that) but then it seems to have been reorganised. Tbh, Unimelb Comp Sci is a shadow of it's former self, a victim of the 'Melbourne Model' common core sausage factory concept.
5-
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prince, a high quality html renderer used for typesetting, is written in mercury:
This is a terrible shame, because this would have been an nice modern alternative to Prolog.
kryptiskt
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Last commit was 2 minutes ago. Seems like a better measure than releases, different projects have different release cadences.
ofrzeta
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Is it the same model as the "Bologna process" in Europe, which is kind of funny because "Bologna" also refers to a type of sausage in the US of A.
angry_octet
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I hope he's stopped drinking Fanta.
ororroro
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Interesting point. My understanding of Mercury is that it is hard carried by Zoltan so it has a bus factor of 1.
zeafoamrun
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I always understood it was a teaching language for students who wanted to get programming language implementation experience.
epgui
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Why is that relevant or noteworthy? There are files that were updated recently too.
ororroro
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Why the aggression? This language while cool has existed for decades and never taken off. I just wanted a reason to believe it relevant so I could have an excuse to take another look.
hackyhacky
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Why do you think "oldest untouched file" is a good metric for relevance? Do you know what is the oldest untouched file in gcc or Python?
srean
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"Taking off" is an unreliable metric of capability and fitness to a problem you may want solved.
zeafoamrun
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Damn dude you're making me feel old
jamwise
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But the repo has had fairly consistent commits since then. Not huge activity, but not sure I'd call it dead.
wduquette
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You say “dead”, I say “stable”. Not everyone wants to base their work on a moving target.