I don't know, maybe someone wanted to try writing a program in it, which seems not irrelevant to programming languages. To most people, even an experimental programming language isn't just an objet d'art; it's more like an ornate tennis racket, and it doesn't look like this one will ever be strung.
Thank you. Aptly written. Even if the idea is fantastic, if not much happens for years, it's almost safe to assume that the product is sort of dead. But it kind of depends! An old academic language like Standard ML might not get a lot of action on its repo (actually gets updated frequently), I'd still use it as it forms the basis of several successor languages.
Just because it hasn't seen activity in awhile doesn't mean it can't be used at all.
Sure, you're not going to want to start up a major project with a long-abandoned language experiment, but frankly it's not much of a step down from even an active language experiment.
I suppose it's got a greater chance of being harder to get going, but so much of that depends on how it was built in the first place that simply being older isn't enough information make much of a guess on that either.
JasonFruit|3 years ago
jp0d|3 years ago
rtepopbe|3 years ago
Sure, you're not going to want to start up a major project with a long-abandoned language experiment, but frankly it's not much of a step down from even an active language experiment.
I suppose it's got a greater chance of being harder to get going, but so much of that depends on how it was built in the first place that simply being older isn't enough information make much of a guess on that either.
canadianfella|3 years ago
Why french?
remram|3 years ago
This is pretty different from your characterization as a finished experiment.