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Re: The Mercury logic programming system

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Why is that relevant or noteworthy? There are files that were updated recently too.

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.

There was no aggression.

Re: The Mercury logic programming system

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prince, a high quality html renderer used for typesetting, is written in mercury: https://www.princexml.com/doc/acknowledgements/

Was it written in Prolog at any point in time ?

Perhaps I am misremembering, but my brain is telling me of a CSS or PDF parser written in Prolog.

Re: The Mercury logic programming system

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post #6
post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is that relevant or noteworthy? There are files that were updated recently too.

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.

"Taking off" is an unreliable metric of capability and fitness to a problem you may want solved.
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