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I think you should do more than read one 4 paragraph comment before you cement an opinion on anything

• v-erne 4y ago
  It depneds on the comment and the article. I actually had some contact with prolog (did a semester in university mamy years ago) and still up till today did not find a reason to use it on real life - mainly because I have responsibily to keep my solutions maintainable for decades and I do not see how could I keep easily find people willing to work on prolog and not switch obver to where reall money is at. So when I saw an interesting insight that somehow maches my very old intuition (that prolog is mainly constraint solver) I wanted to ask more. And I believe that reading this whole introduction could potentially not give me this insight.
  • erik_seaberg 4y ago
    Learning almost any DSL pays off, when the alternative is to macroexpand the same stuff in your head and write out eye-glazing boilerplate.
    • v-erne 4y ago
      That seems like main reason any high level language exist - to give us abstraction layer with better building blocks to solve problems. The trick is to choose which DSL to use in project so its maintainable (and cost effective). I even long time ago learned some prolog (had a whole semester in university on it) but I cannot find a reason why I would use it anywhere in real projects.