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Article #4288Re: PROLOG in the "real" world?
From: Lars-Henrik Eriksson
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1991 13:06
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1991 13:06
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In article <1991Oct1.024843.27996@comp.vuw.ac.nz>, lindsay@comp (Lindsay Groves) writes: >Does anyone "out there" really care about a theoretical foundation? Pure LISP had a nice >theoretical foundation, and look what happened to it! How many people who write anything >approximating "real" programs in Prolog pay any attention to its theoretical foundation? >How many write code which, declaratively, is nonsense, but happens to do what they want >under a particular operational intereatation? People "Out there" might not care, but a compiler writer would.. -- Lars-Henrik Eriksson Internet: lhe@sics.se Swedish Institute of Computer Science Phone (intn'l): +46 8 752 15 09 Box 1263 Telefon (nat'l): 08 - 752 15 09 S-164 28 KISTA, SWEDEN
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