The Birth of Prolog (1996)

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60 points | by Jtsummers 4 days ago

3 comments

  • classichasclass 2 hours ago
    I actually asked Dr Colmerauer once if the original program code had survived, but sadly he did not believe any of it was still around.
  • OymInIRole 1 hour ago
    Interesting that Prolog grew out of an NLP project in Marseille rather than a logic-programming research agenda — SLD resolution got attached to it afterward, not the other way round.
  • a9i 2 hours ago
    I discovered Prolog in my youth, and logic has been something of an addiction ever since - not always, I suspect, a particularly useful one.

    Lately, though, I have found what may be an antidote in Emacs, Lisp, and functional programming.

    Then again, perhaps I have merely traded one elegant addiction for another.

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    • anyfoo 1 hour ago
      Try Haskell.