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Interesting idea that FGCS hype killed Prolog; on the Lisp side, we tend to think that AI hype killed Lisp. Also interesting that the author considers Prolog a
by eadmund 8y ago
Interesting idea that FGCS hype killed Prolog; on the Lisp side, we tend to think that AI hype killed Lisp. Also interesting that the author considers Prolog a competitor to Lisp, when (I think) most programmers don't even think of Prolog. Similarly, while we Lisp programmers think of Algol-like languages as our great competitors, I daresay the vast majority of C, Python, C++, Perl, Java, Go &c. programmers don't even think of Lisp.
I think one can just run a Prolog engine in Lisp these days, which would get one the best of both worlds. But I'm not a Prolog programmer, so … perhaps I'm incorrect.
- yourapostasy 8y agoYou can run Prolog inside Common Lisp: https://www.cliki.net/prolog https://www.cliki.net/prolog I don't know how good those implementations are compared to dedicated Prolog environments, though.
- fiddlerwoaroof 8y agoAnd you can run Common Lisp inside prolog: https://github.com/TeamSPoon/wam_common_lisp https://github.com/TeamSPoon/wam_common_lisp
- kazagistar 8y agoAnd you can't run a JVM in either, so now we know that Java is the best. Or maybe that this measure was pointless?
- profalseidol 8y agoThere's Prolog in Java via GNU Prolog for Java: https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuprologjava/ https://www.gnu.org/software/gnuprologjava/ We can use that to run Common Lisp which can run Prolog. Lmao
- kazagistar 8y agoIf you reread my comment, you will notice my claim was the other way around. I was trying to point out that the encompassing argument is pointless but showing that neither lisp nor prolog can evaluate full Java code (because the reverse is certainly assumed to be possiblr, of course there is jvm lisps and prologs). But really which language is bigger is pointless to begin with.
- fiddlerwoaroof 8y agohttp://abcl.org http://abcl.org
- gnulinux 8y agoMaybe ML hype will kill python in 20 years?
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- aethertron 8y agoPicoLisp has a built-in Prolog engine. I haven't tried it yet. I'd like to build some project in it.