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jlenarci@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (mr j.f. lenarcic) writes:

>I'm teaching a course im Logic Programming/Prolog with an emphasis on
>applications. However, my students are constantly skeptical about the
>suitability of PROLOG for standard commercial applications.
>I would like to obtain a list of all production-based PROLOG sites 
>( or at least as many as possible! ) and an associated summary of
>successful applications to illustrate to my students that PROLOG is
>not just a flash-in-the-pan fad.

My nephew asked me with 13 years which computer language he should
learn. I told him, learn as much languages you like, more is better,
also I gave him the hint not to take one of the typical beginner
languages like pascal or basic. At his birthday I bought him his 
first Prolog. I never learned Prolog myself, but I ever liked the 
concepts. Today 18 years old he writes Prolog prgs on the fly, and
is also able to sell them. Yes, he also learned C,Pascal and 68000
Assembler, but if he has the choice of the language to write an
application he mostly uses Prolog. This month he begins to learn C++
and in the next year Scheme will follow. A good programmer should
know all the different concepts of most languages and should be able
to take always the right methods. For example I am able to program
in an OO style with pure C, I know what it is and how I can implement
it (not exactly, but the idea) in most languages. At the uni in Dortmund
they teach the informatik students first Scheme !

>Now, object-oriented programming doesn't have any firm theoretical
>foundation as yet ( am I correct?) Logic programming, on the other

Your are wrong, OO is very old and has a good theoretical base.
It's the logical next step !

Ever heard of Simula ?, it's an OO language older then most, you
called 'logic' languages. Here are many people programming in Simula.

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