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Mercury

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Mercury is a software application that was influenced by Prolog and Hope.

Mercury

Summary

Mercury is a programming language[1]. Mercury ranks in the top 10% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Mercury was influenced by Prolog[3].
  • Mercury was influenced by Q34010[4].
  • Mercury was influenced by Hope[5].
  • Mercury's instance of is recorded as programming language[6].
  • Mercury's instance of is recorded as functional programming language[7].
  • Mercury's instance of is recorded as object-based language[8].
  • Mercury's instance of is recorded as purely functional programming language[9].
  • Mercury's instance of is recorded as multi-paradigm programming language[10].
  • Mercury's developer is recorded as University of Melbourne[11].
  • Mercury's copyright license is recorded as GNU General Public License[12].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 14.01.1[13].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 0.9[14].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 0.9.1[15].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 0.10[16].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 0.11.0[17].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 0.12.1[18].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 0.12.2[19].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 0.13.1[20].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 10.04[21].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 10.04.1[22].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 10.04.2[23].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 11.01[24].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 11.07[25].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 11.07.1[26].
  • Mercury's software version identifier is recorded as 11.07.2[27].

Body

Designation and Status

Recorded instance of include programming language[6], functional programming language[7], object-based language[8], purely functional programming language[9], and multi-paradigm programming language[10].

History and Context

+1995-04-08T00:00:00Z marks the founding of Mercury[28].

Why It Matters

Mercury ranks in the top 10% of programming_language entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (106 views/month).[2] Mercury has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29]

Related Entities

Bower functional programming language Hope multi-paradigm programming language object-based language programming language Prolog purely functional programming language

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [14] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  10. [15] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  11. [16] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  12. [17] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [18] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [19] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [20] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [21] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [22] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [23] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [24] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [25] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [26] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [27] ↑ . github.com. Retrieved . github.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  23. [28] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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