Talk:Mercury (programming language)
Latest comment: 17 years ago by 4zimuth in topic Logo
Logo
The "logo" listed on this page is actually scanned from a 1940s ad for the [Mercury (automobile)|Ford Mecury]. It's not the logo of the programming language project. -- De Guerre 05:43, 8 April 2007 (UTC)
- Irregardless its origin, they do seem to be using the picture as their logo. Its alt-Tag also says "[Mercury Logo]" on the web-page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 78.48.165.159 (talk) 18:00, 12 February 2008 (UTC)
- As the poster above mentioned, the picture is the official logo as displayed on their website. 4zimuth (talk) 19:51, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- I'm afraid I can't counter that due to the WP:NOR rule, but back in the day, I was in the office next to the guy who scanned the picture and put it on the official web page. --De Guerre (talk) 23:08, 17 February 2008 (UTC)
- You are probably right about the source of the image but the fact that it appears on the language's main page means that the mercury project has chosen it as their logo and it is fair use for us to use it in the article to identify is as such. Please correct me if I am wrong. 4zimuth (talk) 03:57, 19 February 2008 (UTC)
Examples
The article could use a few more examples to illustrate Mercury's syntax. If anyone has any ideas on example programs that illustrate Mercury's functional/logical nature please post them. For now I'll add the Fibonacci numbers program from Ralph Becket's tutorial. 4zimuth (talk) 20:00, 17 February 2008 (UTC)