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GitHub detects wrong language for repos #192

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GitHub currently shows Python as the main programming language used in the repo. The affected repos are the ones which are smaller features, hence requiring fewer lines of C++. Here's a list:

Some other repos in the beman organization are suffering from the same issue, but with CMake. The cause is similar; it's because of the large amount of CMake boilerplate in those repos.

Both of these are lower priority fixes because monadics has not received any commits for a couple of months, and dump is marked as archived.

Expected Behavior

GitHub should show C++ as the main language of the exemplar repo and all repos derived from this template.

Additional Discussions

To fix these issues, we need to add a .gitattributes file to help GitHub Linguist (GitHub's repo language detection tool) correctly identify the language of the repo.

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