Re: PROLOG in the "real" world?

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From: Michael A. Covington
Date: Tue, 01 Oct 1991 19:55

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Re the lack of "major commercial applications" in Prolog,

recall that most of the programming that goes on is _not_ the development
of "major commercial applications" (databases, compilers, editors, etc.),
but rather the development of small custom programs to meet a user's
immediate need. (After all, why do people _buy_ compilers? Just to write
other compilers with them???)

And Prolog is very good for some types of small custom programs, and
even large ones.

Let's admit it, Prolog is a special-purpose language.  But it's a useful
one.  I don't buy the currently popular idea that all the programs in the
world need to be written in one language (C++; five years ago it was C;
long ago it was Fortran).










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From: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington)
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Subject: Re: PROLOG in the "real" world?
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