🚀 go-pugleaf

In <4kel82$rit@nnrp1.news.primenet.com> jstern@primenet.com (Josh Stern) writes:

>Erik P. DeBenedictis <erikd@netalive.com> wrote:
>>I believe there are better comparisons than C/C++ and Java. There is precedent
>>for applying marketing to computer languges, however. Prolog (or the Japanese
>>5th generation computing initiative) and PL/1 got very expensive marketing campaigns
>>as well. These were all bombs.
>>Is it possible that Java will become the Prolog or PL/1 of the 90's?
    Rats! And I threw away my "Teach Yourself PL/I in 21 Days" book.

>Different languáges are appropriate for different purposes -
>IMO, Prolog and C++ shouldn't even be seen as competitors since
>the basic facilities that they provide are so completely
>orthogonal.
    At last! Somebody understands the situation.  If any one language
or paradigm had proved better, we'd have been down to one language long
ago.  But they just keep proliferating - because there's more than one
kind of problem, and new ones keep popping up all the time.

>  If your application calls for the use of
>unification, theorem proving using backward chaining,
>dynamic backtracking search, or focuses primarily
>on constraint relationships in your domain that are most
>naturally represented using declarative (rather than
>procedural) formalisms, then you would be foolish not
>to look at including an off the shelf Prolog engine
>in your code.
    You mean I can't do that in BASIC?????

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