It's an AI language and it operates by matching things against rules. It's a totally different approach from LISP, which also doesn't look much like COBOL.
-- Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz http://mason.gmu.edu/~smetz3 ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Bob Bridges [robhbrid...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 4:30 PM To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU Subject: Re: New Jersey Pleas for COBOL Coders for Mainframes Amid Coronavirus Pandemic I'm not familiar with Prolog, but if it doesn't (in John's words) do Input, Process or Output I can see it wouldn't have much in common with COBOL. --- Bob Bridges, robhbrid...@gmail.com, cell 336 382-7313 /* The conviction of the rich that the poor are happier is no more foolish than the conviction of the poor that the rich are. -Mark Twain */ -----Original Message----- From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] On Behalf Of Seymour J Metz Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 15:53 I don't see much commonality between, e.g., COBOL and Prolog. ________________________________________ From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU] on behalf of Nightwatch RenBand [johnmattson...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 11:06 AM I totally agree with Bob Bridges. It can be boiled down to "all programming languages do the same things, just in, of ten, slightly different ways." Learn one, and you have a head start to learning any of them. Best thing I learned: Virtually all programs come down to Input, Process, Output. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
