[sclug] Re: Prolog

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On Mon, 12 May 2003, Tony Sumner wrote:

> I remember Prolog. When I wanted to print something it just said
> 'yes' but otherwise did nothing.

yes

(!)

It really didn't work out for me because we were being asked to solve
problems that seem a natural fit for a procedural language (e.g. hill
climbing, genetic algorithms). At least when we were learning Miranda, it
was tied in with lots of list processing and recursion, where it makes
obvious sense.

> Forth was highly praised because you could define '+' to mean minus.

IMHO, in a way, FORTH could be considered an object-oriented language. I
kinda liked it, but it could have done with a more powerful standard library
(a la C) including better functions to deal with strings.

> Tony Sumner

Best Regards,
Alex.
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