🚀 go-pugleaf

We sometimes wonder why we have so much trouble getting
people to consider using Prolog (and logic programming languages
in general) for "real" applications.  Well, part of it could
be due to the material they are taught.  The following is a quote
from "Software Engineering", 4th ed, by Ian Sommerville.  It is
a popular text for university software engineering courses.
On page 18 he states:
	"Exploratory programming is not suited to the development
	of most large, long-lifetime software systems because it
	is likely to result in systems which are expensive to
	maintain."
On page 19 he says:
	" ... If you are familiar with LISP, Prolog or some other
	exploratory programming language ..."

With "authorities" like this, no wonder we have trouble getting
people to believe us that we can program "real" applications in Prolog!
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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=		Tony Kusalik
 kusalik@cs.usask.ca		Department of Computational Science
 kusalik@skribe.usask.ca	University of Saskatchewan
 kusalik@sask.usask.ca		Saskatoon, Saskatchewan