[mercury-users] Native garbage collector for Mercury

[Randall Helzerman]

> 	Logic programming in general, and Mercury in particular, are not 
>       going to become mainstream languages until it is shown that they 
>       can be used to create an operating system.
> 	
> Just how many operating systems are written in COBOL?  Or BASIC?  Or Perl?
> How many *available* operating systems are written in Java?

These are all dying programming languages, with the notable exception of perl.