🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <CONERY.92Sep27133023@kiwanda.cs.uoregon.edu>, conery@kiwanda.cs.uoregon.edu (John Conery) writes:
|> In article <1992Sep26.175623.16840@tom.rz.uni-passau.de> baier@forwiss.uni-passau.de (Joern Baier) writes:
|> 
|>    In article <1992Sep20.182451.25920@ultb.isc.rit.edu> cjb3701@ritvax.isc.rit.edu writes:
|>    >Any info for a new student of prolog (myself) who is having a difficult
|>    >time with the language?  ...
|> 
|>    PROLOG is like riding a bike with your front directed backwards. Even if
|>    you are a good biker you will have a lot of troubles to ride a bike that way.

Well, I think it's more like baking cookies like that:

Imagine what cookies taste like... and write that down.
Imagine what cookies smell like... and write that down.
Imagine what cookies look like... and write that down.

Having done that, you show it to your oven, hoping it comes with a recipe ;-)

Of course, the biggest mistake you can make _before_ learning Prolog is to learn
_any other_ computer language!
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Michael Hinz ! turn your pc into a game boy? just type 'win' at the dos prompt!
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