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Subject: Re: Is this program OOP?
Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:40:24 -0000 (UTC)
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On Wed, 11 Dec 2024 08:59:18 +0100
David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:
>On 10/12/2024 17:35, Muttley@DastardlyHQ.org wrote:
>> On Tue, 10 Dec 2024 17:04:37 +0100
>> David Brown <david.brown@hesbynett.no> wibbled:
>>> On 10/12/2024 10:23, wij wrote:
>>>> Very dubious, show us what you say is true.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Prolog is a language that is ideally suited to such problems.
>>> Basically, you give the language a bunch of objects and facts and
>>> relations about those objects, then you ask it questions about them.
>>> It's at least 35 years since I tried Prolog one afternoon, and that's
>>> exactly the kind of task I played with (though a bit smaller).
>> 
>> I found Prolog an absolute bugger of a language. Beyond simple clauses it
>> never did what I expected it to do. Its the one language I never really
>> got. I think it requires a certain mindset or way of thinking.
>> 
>
>Having only tried it for a short time as a teenager, it's not fair for 
>me to judge it - but it is certainly quite a different kind of language 
>from C++!

We had to use it in the AI module at uni. :/ 

I suspect its raison d'etre has rather been shot down these days as AI has
moved away from propositional logic to neural networks.