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Well, besides that Erlang was initially implemented in Prolog, I don't think these languages have much in common except punctuation symbols :)

• dragonwriter 12y ago
  Then again... http://danlucraft.com/blog/2007/08/comparing-erlang-and-prolog/ http://danlucraft.com/blog/2007/08/comparing-erlang-and-prol...
  • zura 12y ago
    As for binding, yes, you can come up with similarly looking examples, but they are different in essence: Erlang has pattern matching, while Prolog has unification.
    • mcguire 12y ago
      "Erlang has pattern matching, while Prolog has unification." Ah, yes. My first reaction to seeing pattern matching in ML: "Hey, this is literally half of unification."
    • dragonwriter 12y ago
      I'm kind of wondering why we haven't seen any notable (unless I've missed something) languages with full unification escape from academia into wider use since Prolog -- I know on the academic side there is Oz, which is a very interesting language, but I don't get the impression that its seen much, if any, use in industry.
• pjmlp 12y ago
  Yes you are right, that is why I said "somehow".