Mercury (programming language)

Mercury is an open source programming language created in 1995 by Zoltan Somogyi. The Programming Language Database describes it as a functional logic programming language made for real-world uses and as a purely declarative logic programming language. The first version was developed in the Computer Science department of the University of Melbourne by Fergus Henderson, Thomas Conway and Zoltan Somogyi, under Somogyi's supervision, and was released on April 8, 1995. Mercury compiles to C, and the database lists related languages including Prolog, Haskell, Erlang, Standard ML, Oz, Curry and Visual Prolog. It appears in the TIOBE Index, and the page records hundreds of public repositories written in it.