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Re:A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code by rozab on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:41AM (#25209678)
The languages breakdown is interesting. It seems GitHub refuses to admit defeat and categorises the .m files into various other languages which use the extension (M, MATLAB, Objective-C, Mathematica and Mercury). I wonder if they use some sort of fuzzy ML solution for categorising them rather than conventional parsing.
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Re:A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code by remram on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:02AM (#25209919)
Wonder no more! https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/7c2adbdb15d4efd25d92...

As most AI, it's regex and ifs all the way down.

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Re:A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code by nolok on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @10:57AM (#25210544)
> As most AI, it's regex and ifs all the way down.

This made me laugh way more than expected, mostly because of how true it is.

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Re:A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code by rozab on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @12:43PM (#25211891)
These incredibly vague regexes are hilarious. But I guess if it works, it works (until it doesn't)
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Re:A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code by Eikon on Wednesday November 25, 2020 @09:55AM (#25209844)
Here you go!

https://github.com/github/linguist#how-linguist-works

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