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Article #500Re: Fun. vs. Logic
From: Tim Finin
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1989 05:29
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 1989 05:29
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In article <11500018@hpldola.HP.COM>, patch@hpldola (Pat Chkoreff) writes: >I have been reading "Elements of Functional Programming", by Chris Reade, >and it has caused me to reconsider the relative merits of logic versus >functional programming languages. Specifically, I am considering the merits >of Prolog versus ML or Miranda.... It's hard and somewhat pointless to argue the merits of functional programming versus logic programming languages independant of any class of applications. Luckily, we can have many programming paradigms and chose one well suited for any given application. I think that Prolog, and most other LP languages, offer an interesting and well integrated collection of tools: implicit backtracking, unification, logic variables, relational programming, database, etc. The result is very good for programming certain kinds of problems and less good for others. Tim Tim Finin finin@prc.unisys.com (internet) Unisys Paoli Research Center 215-648-7446 (office) 215-648-7412 (fax) PO Box 517, Paoli, PA 19301 215-386-1749 (home)
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!ames!haven!udel!burdvax!finin@antares From: finin@antares (Tim Finin) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Fun. vs. Logic Message-ID: <12089@burdvax.PRC.Unisys.COM> Date: 19 Nov 89 05:29:09 GMT References: <11500018@hpldola.HP.COM> Sender: news@PRC.Unisys.COM Reply-To: finin@antares (Tim Finin) Organization: Unisys Paoli Research Center, PO Box 517, Paoli PA 19301 Lines: 20 In-reply-to: patch@hpldola.HP.COM (Pat Chkoreff)