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I wonder if there are PLs named after metals, or even other elements of the periodic table, other than Zinc, Carbon and Mercury? :)

Not a metal/element but there's Ruby

Good one, close.

I used Ruby in the Web 2 days in a few dotcom projects.


Now try piping Perl into itself. #@$%&^*!

A homopipic / homeopathic language?

Similiia similibus curentur.

https://www.google.com/search?q=similia+similibus+curentur



That's why Larry Wall said he'll be certified before Perl is (when asked about the prospect of standardizing the language).

It's one of his well-known quotes.

https://quotefancy.com/quote/1497280/Larry-Wall-I-think-I-m-...


I posted a link to many of his quotes:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43287809


Or like an explosion in a sigil pottery :)

hare will not support Windows.

https://harelang.org/documentation/install/#supported-platfo...

Interesting reasons.


Makes sense

Partly off-topic: which well-known companies have research groups? I knew about Microsoft and IBM. Google, probably. Others? Might be interesting to browse their sites for nuggets to explore or use.

If you hear the name “lab126”, that’s Amazon’s team.

Nokia owns the shambling corpse that is Bell Labs. Looking beyond the English speaking world, I wouldn’t discount that the chaebols (LG, Samsung, Mitsubishi, etc) all have a few companies dedicated to research at the Bell Labs level.



IIRC, I read somewhere, several months ago ago, that its type inference made it slow to compile anything but small programs?

Yes, I believe so because it uses global type inference. I would gladly add explicit types everywhere instead of this to use Crystal if it had decent tooling, because everything else about the language is really perfect.

Intriguing. You really didn't find any issues with it? Anything that you thought should / not be there, or some non-trivial bug?

> I would gladly add explicit types everywhere instead of this to use Crystal

Agreed. Good IDE support can easily add explicit types too.


Roc was inspired by Elm, and has CLI as one of its "platforms", which is systems in a loose sense. Early days for Roc, though there may be orgs using it in productiom.

I read a while ago, when checking out Prince XML (a high-end HTML to PDF conversion tool), that is written using Mercury.

https://www.princexml.com/


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