Bug report: missidentifying SAGE programming language

[hilder-vitor]

Preliminary Steps

Please confirm you have...

• [ x ] reviewed How Linguist Works,
• [ x ] reviewed the Troubleshooting docs,
• [ x ] considered implementing an override,
• [ x ] verified an issue has not already been logged for your issue (linguist issues).

Problem Description

Hello,
in my repository named sage_lattice_examples, all the scripts are written in SAGE (https://www.sagemath.org/), which is a programming language that mathematicians and cryptographers use a lot, however, GitHub is reporting that they are written in Python. The menu on the right shows "Languages: Python 100%".

URL of the affected repository:

https://github.com/hilder-vitor/sage_lattice_examples

Last modified on:

2020-06-13

Expected language:

Sage

Detected language:

Python

[lildude]

This is happening because Sage is grouped alongside Python:

https://github.com/github/linguist/blob/b24ff11d9cf60dd996156a718f83024c9436e5ea/lib/linguist/languages.yml#L4939-L4949

This has been the case since support was added for it over 9 years ago in #91 and to quote the original PR "Sage uses python for syntax" hence it has been grouped with Python.

[hilder-vitor]

Hello,
thank you for answering!

So, is this a design choice and it means that Sage will continue being classified as Python? Or would you be interested in separating them?

[lildude]

I know absolutely nothing about Sage, but if there's a good reason to break it out, and there's support for it, I don't see why not. Feel free to add this to the discussion in #4291

[hilder-vitor]

I have done so. I do not know what would be considered a "good reason", but I have at least talked a bit about the differences between them. (:

Thank you again!

[pchaigno]

Closing in favor of #4291.