[Haskell-cafe] Learn Prolog...

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Sun Sep 2 06:52:36 EDT 2007


On Sep 2, 2007, at 2:08 , Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

>> But after reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ 
>> Fifth_generation_computer, it seemed to me that Prolog was a dead  
>> language, having only pure theoretical purposes. Is this true?

Tell that to the order pricing system I wrote in Prolog for a  
customer site in the early 90s.  (Admittedly, I did eventually  
rewrite it in C.).

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