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Re:In 2017, learn every language by vram22 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @05:20AM (#13295324)
> I suggest Mercury for logic language as it's a better Prolog with functional and performance improvements. It's used commercially, too.

Any idea what sort of applications the Mercury language is used commercially for? (Only) one I know of is Prince XML (from the Wikipedia article about either one of them). Not saying it's not used for more, just interested to know.

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Re:In 2017, learn every language by nickpsecurity on Sunday January 01, 2017 @01:13PM (#13296597)
Regular business apps or processes at Mission Critical IT:

http://www.missioncriticalit.com/technology.html

You could also use it anywhere Prolog is used. So, you could look up applications or commercial users of Prolog. Here's one in finance that would probably benefit from Mercury:

https://dtai.cs.kuleuven.be/CHR/files/Elston_SecuritEase.pdf

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Re:In 2017, learn every language by vram22 on Sunday January 01, 2017 @04:04PM (#13297342)
Cool, thanks. Good point about Prolog.
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