I suspect that an optimization problem I will have to face in a bit of time might be a good fit for Prolog. What would be the best resources for a quick, relati

I suspect that an optimization problem I will have to face in a bit of time might be a good fit for Prolog. What would be the best resources for a quick, relatively high level overview/introduction, then a more involved guide for learning it? This question has been asked elsewhere, but is there a way to pass data back and forth with other languages, and let them control the execution flow? A C interface would seem like a good IR to target. My apologies if I used the wrong terminology, I am not intimate with the more academic nomenclature.