On: A Modern Compiler for the French Tax Code

[rozab]

The languages breakdown is interesting. It seems GitHub refuses to admit defeat and categorises the .m files into various other languages which use the extension (M, MATLAB, Objective-C, Mathematica and Mercury). I wonder if they use some sort of fuzzy ML solution for categorising them rather than conventional parsing.

[remram → rozab]

Wonder no more! https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/7c2adbdb15d4efd25d92...

As most AI, it's regex and ifs all the way down.

[nolok → remram]

> As most AI, it's regex and ifs all the way down.

This made me laugh way more than expected, mostly because of how true it is.

[rozab → remram]

These incredibly vague regexes are hilarious. But I guess if it works, it works (until it doesn't)

[Eikon → rozab]

Here you go!

https://github.com/github/linguist#how-linguist-works