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Prolog Coding Horror (metalevel.at)
rtpg 26 minutes ago [-]
There's something quite illuminating with this first "horror", where they basically say "it's OK to report wrong answers, because you can check the answers".

I don't think I've ever felt like it's OK for my program to provide a list of answers where some are right and some are wrong, but reading this... and generally believing in P != NP.... maybe that's a decent way of looking at some stuff!

DonHopkins 5 minutes ago [-]
Sometimes the Biorhythm program on my Apple ][ failed to produce correct answers. But it sure was great for impressing cool hippie chicks.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jYoY1cwAd90

appil 1 hours ago [-]
What do people use Prolog for in the real world? I learned about it on a university course and it seems so esoteric compared to other things on the course. Like something invented just for computer scientists to enjoy.
radomir_cernoch 49 minutes ago [-]
Some applications were discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40994552
christophilus 52 minutes ago [-]
Dunno about Prolog, but Datomic uses datalog for its query language, and it’s excellent. Datalog is a subset of Prolog.
ted_dunning 10 minutes ago [-]
Datalog may appear to be a subset, but it is quite distinct semantically.
raffael_de 10 minutes ago [-]
What is Datalog used for nowadays?
48 minutes ago [-]
49 minutes ago [-]
crustycoder 1 hours ago [-]
Mostly overblown.
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