Re: [racket] Offtopic: Favorite resources for mastering Prolog [was: SML]?

2013-07-06 Thread Jay McCarthy
If you look at the papers referenced in the Datalog documentation, you can get a good start on the theory of Datalog and some things related to it. Jay On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 1:49 PM, Richard Lawrence wrote: > Mark Engelberg > writes: > >> While we're on the topic of exploring from Racket to al

Re: [racket] Offtopic: Favorite resources for mastering SML?

2013-07-06 Thread Dan Andersson
Prolog proper or declarative logic programming? For the second I'd say miniKanren and *'The Reasoned Schemer'.* On Sat, Jul 6, 2013 at 7:13 AM, Mark Engelberg wrote: > While we're on the topic of exploring from Racket to alternative > languages, what's the friendliest way to dip into Prolog comi

Re: [racket] Request for guidance

2013-07-06 Thread grant centauri
I have completed about half of the first edition of HtDP, and also have read most of Realm of Racket, and Land of Lisp as well. I have to say, the first half of HtDP dealing with data structures was the ONLY thing that gave me the fundamental insights into programming that I needed to understand i

Re: [racket] Offtopic: Favorite resources for mastering Prolog [was: SML]?

2013-07-06 Thread Richard Lawrence
Mark Engelberg writes: > While we're on the topic of exploring from Racket to alternative languages, > what's the friendliest way to dip into Prolog coming from a Racket > background? Well, there's the Racklog module: http://docs.racket-lang.org/racklog/ There's also the Datalog language: htt

[racket] Request for guidance

2013-07-06 Thread Saad Bashir
I am a novice programmer - actually a novice learner - and this group and 2HTDP have been invaluable resources for me - really inspirational. Through this group I learned about the launch of Realm of Racket. I also noted the advice by Matthias about the sequence to follow in learning (BSL. ISL, A