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> Erlang, which if you squint is another Lisp dialect Prolog disagrees. IIRC the first versions of Erlang were written in Prolog, and you can still see its inf
by sph 3mo ago
> Erlang, which if you squint is another Lisp dialect
Prolog disagrees. IIRC the first versions of Erlang were written in Prolog, and you can still see its influence in the syntax.
- pjmlp 3mo agoCorrect, although I would assert Prolog shares many concepts with Lisp.
- drob518 3mo agoIt does. In Prolog, data is code is data as well.
- derdi 3mo agoNeither use as an implementation language nor syntactic similarities make one language a dialect of another. Consider that Java is commonly implemented in C++, and its syntax was designed to be easy to learn for C++ users. Yet nobody calls it a dialect of C++, not even when squinting really hard. Erlang's computation model is functional, like Lisp, unlike Prolog.