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Thanks, that's a rare example of something which is (a) simple enough to understand for a Prolog-newbie like me, and (b) more practical than ubiquitous family-t

Thanks, that's a rare example of something which is (a) simple enough to understand for a Prolog-newbie like me, and (b) more practical than ubiquitous family-tree example. I'm always looking for opportunities to dip my toes into Prolog; in hindsight it's clearly a good fit for tree-structured data structures.

samhw 5y ago
Interestingly, the only other context in which I've come across Prolog is from friends who studied at Cambridge, here in the UK. For some reason, the CS 'tripos' (course) there is really heavily focussed on Prolog, and everyone I know from there ended up a huge fan of the language. I'm not sure why that's the case, though, given that almost all other universities seem to use more common languages (Java, C++, etc).
- WickyNilliams 5y ago
  I studied CS at a different university in UK and we used Prolog for one module on AI or perhaps machine vision. I really enjoyed working with it. This was 15 years ago. Looking through their current curriculum I can't see prolog being mentioned anymore. Shame!
- zimpenfish 5y ago
  cs.man.ac.uk, at least back in 1992, had a compulsory Prolog module in the first year. Don't know anyone from then who didn't hate that module with a burning passion. (There was no Java, C++, etc. either. It was SML, Pascal, 68000, and Oracle Pascal-Embedded-SQL.)
- ramses0 5y ago
  "Prolog as a library" => Given "functional" constraints => $CONSTRAINTS.prolog( "query..." ) => results ...many languages (similar to regex / state-machine) can benefit greatly from offloading a portion to something prolog-ish, but it's unfortunate that prolog knowledge isn't as widely distributed.