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Having used Prolog a lot myself, I'd guess it's just that the kind of problems Prolog is good at (i.e. ones that require backtracking and the user of an inferen
by seanwilson 11y ago
Having used Prolog a lot myself, I'd guess it's just that the kind of problems Prolog is good at (i.e. ones that require backtracking and the user of an inference engine) don't occur often enough.
- sundarurfriend 11y agoIn the future, I believe that a significant amount of 'sciencing' will be done by AI; collecting facts from various disciplines, seeing how they fit together and where there are gaps, and so on. Cross-disciplinary knowledge is something that often yields gold, but getting more and more difficult for humans to have. So, it's near certain that such an AI (or multiple ones) will be built and used, and from your description, a Prolog-like language might be ideal for this. This is something I'm excited to see in my lifetime.
- zmonx 11y agoI think this comment hits the nail on the head. In my opinion, Prolog is now starting to become interesting. In the Prolog community, the last few decades were spent on researching efficient Prolog implementation techniques and important features like constraints. In the coming decades, we will see many interesting Prolog applications that will benefit from that work.