On Wed, Nov 3, 2010 at 11:53 AM, Sunil S Nandihalli <
sunil.nandiha...@gmail.com> wrote:

> thanks Jim for your email. I will try to get my hands on Reasoned Schemer..
> :)
> Sunil.
>

I've been working through it and it's an eye-opening book, particularly for
me as I'm not that familiar with Prolog. It's inspired me to download far
too many related papers :) Things I find fascinating about miniKanren (just
my impressions, I could be off/wrong about all of these):

* is only some 317 lines of code! Maxwell's Equations of Logic Programming?!
* embedded, allows you mix Functional and Logic Pogramming paradigms - also
ditches Prolog syntax
* pure relational programming, kind of the way Haskell is purely functional
(no cut)
* good foundation for building a type-inferencer
* amenable to aggressive optimizations (full Kanren seems competitive with
mature Prologs)
* amenable to parallelization

David

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