[Baypiggies] functional languages (was: Eric Raymond likes Python)

[Rich Pixley]

Has anyone here spent any time with Mercury?  
(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mercury_%28programming_language%29)  And 
if so, how was it for you?

I've always thought it looked to have some commercial potential.  It's 
more prolog than ML, but it's in the family of "functional languages".  
But I haven't really had much opportunity to do anything with it.

--rich