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Doesn't most of this syntax come from Prolog?
by sotojuan 10y ago
Doesn't most of this syntax come from Prolog?
- Turing_Machine 10y agoLikely that was its direct source (Erlang was originally developed in Prolog, IIRC). However, the first volume of TAOCP came out in 1968, while Prolog dates from 1972. It's possible that the Prolog team got the notation from Knuth, and then Armstrong, et al carried it forward into Erlang.
- 4ad 10y agoKnuth didn't invent any notation here, it's just standard math. There are a million languages out there that resemble math notation (mostly functional languages), many of them resemble it much better than erlang does.