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Sometimes, just because you can doesn't mean you should..
Are you saying that people shouldn't teach themselves powerful technologies?
This is really fun. Thanks for sharing!
Prolog is extremely different than other programming languages and as a result, learning it and writing a few small programs is very mind expanding. It really drives home how different paradigms are suited to different problems. Prolog is suited toward problems like Einsteins riddle https://udel.edu/~os/riddle.html
The class I was taking kind of blew my mind when I saw how you can solve some problems in such cool ways with Prolog, but I would certainly admit that this server isn't exactly the kind of use it's best suited for.
No! What are you doing?! Let that language die in peace!
Any particular reason you think Prolog should be abandoned? I think it looks like very nice language for untyped, high-level programming.
Pretty cool. I also did a stint messing around with Prolog and it was pretty awesome discovering an entirely new programming paradigm. I ended up doing the Priceonomics puzzle ( https://priceonomics.com/jobs/puzzle/ ) in Prolog and wrote up about it here - http://dangoldin.com/2013/06/07/fun-with-prolog-priceonomics...
Sometimes, just because you can doesn't mean you should..
The author states many times that they did this to learn about networking and Prolog, killing two birds with one stone. This is clearly in no way meant to run any serious server software. Are you saying that people shouldn't teach themselves powerful technologies?
That much it was clear they weren't saying. What was being said was that prolog is just about the last lang you'd do this in. Aside from that, I think everyone else was aware that this was an experiment.
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I think this is a great approach. The last highly up voted article suffered from being the same ol' hello world intro to prolog. It's fun to see a real world problem tackled.
Pretty cool. I also did a stint messing around with Prolog and it was pretty awesome discovering an entirely new programming paradigm. I ended up doing the Priceonomics puzzle ( https://priceonomics.com/jobs/puzzle/ ) in Prolog and wrote up about it here - http://dangoldin.com/2013/06/07/fun-with-prolog-priceonomics...
That's awesome, thanks for sharing!
.pl is perl, use .pg for prolog
IBM bundled some ancient prolog dialect (copyright 1991 iirc) and the product was a mess.
But it was a great time... a coworker and I came up with a way to persist facts to DB2 and decode/standardize all sorts of fubar network device alarms. Good times.