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I use prolog written in text files, it's pretty much the perfect query language and so there's no better tool for organizing your knowledge. (it's such a cool w

I use prolog written in text files, it's pretty much the perfect query language and so there's no better tool for organizing your knowledge. (it's such a cool way to organize notes that i often go overboard with taking too many notes and too much organizing). It's also a brilliant metaprogramming language (i use it for html, java, javascript, python, sql, mozart/oz) so you can spend all your work time in it if you're a programmer.

simonw 17y ago
You use prolog for note taking? That's fascinating - any chance you could paste in just a few lines so we can see what it looks like (and maybe an example of a query you might run)?
- marshallp 17y ago
  It's not so fascinating at when first writing a note, but it gets interesting after that -you have tags on tags -and finally you get an ontology or thereabouts I'm not sure it's cut out for everyone though hackernewscomment_paragraph_id("I use prolog written in text files, it's pretty much the perfect query language and so there's no better tool for organizing your knowledge. (it's such a cool way to organize notes that i often go overboard with taking too many notes and too much organizing).",1,1030). hackernewscomment_paragraph_id("It's also a brilliant metaprogramming language (i use it for html, java, javascript, python, sql, mozart/oz) so you can spend all your work time in it if you're a programmer.",2,1030). comment_tag(1030,prolog). pllanguagecomment(X) :- comment_tag(X,Y),pllanguage(Y). pllanguage(prolog). pllanguage(java). description(pllanguagecomment,"tell me comment id's where i commented about a programming language").
  - marshallp 17y ago
    check out protege ontology editor for people who'd like a graphical tool for this style of organizing
mad44 17y ago
I use emacs org-mode and get a lot of mileage from it.
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yycom 17y ago
> prolog ... metaprogramming This is very relevant to my interests. Please post or write an article about this.

simonw 17y ago

You use prolog for note taking? That's fascinating - any chance you could paste in just a few lines so we can see what it looks like (and maybe an example of a query you might run)?

marshallp 17y ago
It's not so fascinating at when first writing a note, but it gets interesting after that -you have tags on tags -and finally you get an ontology or thereabouts I'm not sure it's cut out for everyone though hackernewscomment_paragraph_id("I use prolog written in text files, it's pretty much the perfect query language and so there's no better tool for organizing your knowledge. (it's such a cool way to organize notes that i often go overboard with taking too many notes and too much organizing).",1,1030). hackernewscomment_paragraph_id("It's also a brilliant metaprogramming language (i use it for html, java, javascript, python, sql, mozart/oz) so you can spend all your work time in it if you're a programmer.",2,1030). comment_tag(1030,prolog). pllanguagecomment(X) :- comment_tag(X,Y),pllanguage(Y). pllanguage(prolog). pllanguage(java). description(pllanguagecomment,"tell me comment id's where i commented about a programming language").
- marshallp 17y ago
  check out protege ontology editor for people who'd like a graphical tool for this style of organizing

mad44 17y ago

I use emacs org-mode and get a lot of mileage from it.

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yycom 17y ago

> prolog ... metaprogramming This is very relevant to my interests. Please post or write an article about this.