3 Sep
2007
3 Sep
'07
2:49 a.m.
G'day all.
Quoting Bill Wood
As to whether Prolog is "dead" or not, it depends on your definition of "dead". Three years ago (not ten!) I made my living maintaining and developing a large application written in Prolog.
Back when I was doing logic programming, 10 or so years ago, we used to chuckle at papers which referred to analyses which claimed to be fast "even on large 1000-line programs". I'm sure this isn't the case for you, but a typical Prolog programmer's idea of "large" is very different from a typical COBOL programmer's.
As a result code was being perpetually tuned toward less non-determinism. You know what the limit is? Functional programming!
Did you look at Mercury? Cheers, Andrew Bromage