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"Logic programming" is a misnomer. It's really a kind of parallel reality database query language. It's not used much because relational databases and SQL won
by otabdeveloper1 8y ago
"Logic programming" is a misnomer. It's really a kind of parallel reality database query language.
It's not used much because relational databases and SQL won in the end.
(I guess back in the day people imagined computers as knowledge graphs and logical predicates on them, not tabular data and joins.)
- convolvatron 8y agowhy a misnomer? its exactly what programming would look like if you wanted to try to implement computing as predicate calculus.