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Does anybody here know of any open source projects that use datalog/prolog/etc and would be comprehensible to mere mortals?

• bawolff 6y ago
  Gerrit used prolog to determine when to merge patches if i recall. I had to learn prolog in university once upon a time, but gerrit is the only time i have ever encountered prolog in the wild, and it only uses it i one small spot.
  • pstuart 6y ago
    Thanks. It seems like powerful tech but the fact that it isn't more widespread seems that it's as daunting to others as it is to me :-).
    • bawolff 6y ago
      I think its more just an accident of history - lisp became popular, prolog faded. Sometimes some technologies just happen to fade out due to chance. I have heard, that people who have never programmed before often have an easier time learning prolog than people who have, so I think there's an element of forgetting what you already know. When I had to learn it for school, there was this book of small puzzles (Sort of like the little lisper but for prolog) that was really helpful, but I can't remember the name of it.