> I love seeing elegant solutions to complicated problems in 10 lines of code It's great for those kinds of problems, because backtracking search is built-in t

> I love seeing elegant solutions to complicated problems in 10 lines of code It's great for those kinds of problems, because backtracking search is built-in to the language. But it's a terrible language for doing anything bigger. Mercury (http://mercurylang.org http://mercurylang.org) is a very interesting successor language that has lots of modern, Haskell-like features like strong typing and type classes.