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It continues to be immensely surprising to me that Joe Armstrong was able to write the initial Erlang implementation in Prolog. I wish I’d asked him about getti
by macintux 5mo ago
It continues to be immensely surprising to me that Joe Armstrong was able to write the initial Erlang implementation in Prolog. I wish I’d asked him about getting a copy of the source code.
- Joker_vD 5mo agoWhat does this say about Forth? Not much except that it isn't for me. Take Prolog. I know few things more insulting than having to code in Prolog. Whereas Armstrong developed Erlang in Prolog and liked it much better than reimplementing Erlang in C for speed. I can't imagine how this could be, but this is how it was. People are different. from Yossi Kreinin's "My history with Forth & stack machines" [0]. Some people write APL and enjoy it. Some can't bear Lisp even after 10 years of working with it. [0] https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines.html https://yosefk.com/blog/my-history-with-forth-stack-machines...
- triska 5mo agoRegarding distributed systems, I find Torbjörn Lager's recent work on Web Prolog particularly interesting. He recently posted about it here: https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions/3322 https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions/3322 and also in the course of a discussion on various approaches to implement concurrency in Prolog: https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions/3307 https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions/3307