Markus Triska wrote: > Ken Tilton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >>I think all-rules-all-the-time Prolog is the poster boy for paradigm >>slavery. (I did try for a famous two months to use Prolog as a >>general-purpose programming language.) > > > Don't expect to learn Prolog properly in so little time.
Lawdy, no, but I had all those Art of Prolog and Craft of Prolog and a couple other books and I was staring at pages of intense code just trying to do basic stuff. I had not learned prolog, but I could see the masters writing hairy code to basic stuff so I concluded...run away! run away! :) I think the other thing that got me was cuts, which I translated as "did we say unification all the time? sorry..." :) > To your > previous question whether the ~180 lines of Lisp code in some online > book constitute an "industrial strength" Prolog: only if the following > ~180 lines of Prolog code implement an "industrial strength" Lisp. <snip lisp-in-Prolog> Way cool. ken -- Algebra: http://www.tilton-technology.com/LispNycAlgebra1.htm "Well, I've wrestled with reality for thirty-five years, Doctor, and I'm happy to state I finally won out over it." -- Elwood P. Dowd "I'll say I'm losing my grip, and it feels terrific." -- Smiling husband to scowling wife, New Yorker cartoon -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
