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> I'm really fascinated by the resurgence of some of these old languages. Not wanting to take away from your fascination ;) but even though Prolog is from 1972
by tannhaeuser 6y ago
> I'm really fascinated by the resurgence of some of these old languages.
Not wanting to take away from your fascination ;) but even though Prolog is from 1972 (which may or may not be old, depending on your PoV), core Prolog syntax is pretty much a minimal language for representing terms and term unification. Doesn't get anymore straightforward than that, whether modern or not.
Prolog is by itself no language for number crunching or SIMD, nor does it usually deal with memory alignment, sparse matrices, or other data layout concerns in the way C++ for CUDA does. OTOH, Inductive Learning (ILP) has been a major application of Prolog as recent as 2012 (ProGolem, Aleph, etc., some of which have been taken into commercial endeavors). But I'm not familiar enough with ML to contrast with last decades's ML push/approaches, let alone have an opinion.