[ororroro]

There are files in this repository that were last touched 32 years ago. Any reason to be posting it now?

[kaonwarb]

Not that it necessarily applies here, but as a heuristic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect

[ororroro]

Interesting point. My understanding of Mercury is that it is hard carried by Zoltan so it has a bus factor of 1.

[zeafoamrun]

I always understood it was a teaching language for students who wanted to get programming language implementation experience.

[epgui]

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

[ororroro]

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]

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]

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

[epgui]

There was no aggression.

[zeafoamrun]

Damn dude you're making me feel old