Re: github finally believes we exist

Maybe could be interesting to 'grab' the .lp extension, if it appears to be
(still) free.

Actually in SWI-prolog it's as easy as to put in ~/.plrc

user:prolog_file_type(lp, prolog).

and all seems to work appropriately.
No need to change any of the current code base...



2013/8/19 Paulo Moura <[email protected]>

> Hi Anne,
>
> On 19/08/2013, at 06:06, Anne Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Another small victory - Github now classifies prolog code correctly.
> They used to classify it as perl.
>
> That was been true for some time. But it seems that some projects need to
> be re-analysed for the language statistics to show up corrected. But
> identifying source files as Prolog source files is not always accurate. The
> software doing the job, linguist, still defines the Prolog bits as:
>
> Prolog:
>   type: programming
>   color: "#74283c"
>   primary_extension: .prolog
>   extensions:
>   - .pro
>
> Me and others tried to get .pl recognized as the de facto standard
> extension for Prolog source files but it was a lost battle. Thankfully,
> linguist (also) uses the actual contents of the files to try to infer the
> language used in a source file. Sometimes linguist guesses it wrong and you
> can find e.g. people also complaining that suddenly that have become Prolog
> programmers :-)
>
> Cheers,
>
> Paulo
>
>
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