Re: "but you would have to think about what pieces of data you will need." -- But with procedural you don't have to think much; the parts are right there to sel

Re: "but you would have to think about what pieces of data you will need." -- But with procedural you don't have to think much; the parts are right there to selectively examine. Re: "in Prolog you cannot nest loops...It's hard to write a big non-dissected piece of code if you cannot nest loops." -- But nesting is good for modularity. It's sometimes called "step-wise refinement", which is a brilliant abstraction that is usually easy and natural to comprehend. Nesting is how we have been splitting up society since the dawn of civilization: countries, states, counties, cities, etc. (or equiv.) Similar for big militaries. (Maybe this is a meta form of Conway's law? Either way Conway was on to something.)