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The GitHub README gives more context for the somewhat inconsistent state of the docs. It's an open source release of a language that had been a commercial spino
by _delirium 5y ago
The GitHub README gives more context for the somewhat inconsistent state of the docs. It's an open source release of a language that had been a commercial spinoff from academia decades earlier, and now gets only occasional updates from two people as a spare-time project:
> The Nial language was developed by Mike Jenkins and Trenchard More in a collaborative research project supported by Queen's University at Kingston and IBM Cambridge Scientific Center from 1979 to 1982.
> [...]
> Nial Systems limited licensed the interpreter from Queen's University and marketed it widely. Mike Jenkins continued to refine both the language and its implementation. In 2006 Mike released Version 6.3 as an open source project to encourage continued development of Nial.
> In 2014 Mike started working with John Gibbons to develop a 64-bit version and to add capabilities that John needed for his work. The decision was made to target the open source for Unix-based platforms and release it on GitHub.