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. That was actually an interesting experience, since one of the performance drivers was speed. As a result code was being perpetually tuned toward less non-determinism. I've been following the discussion with interest, and I wonder what heppened to Gõdel, which promised to be a successor of Prolog. See the
On Sun, 2007-09-02 at 08:24 -0500, Bill Wood wrote: link for features, but http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/~bowers/goedel.html was last updated in 1995. Does anybody know more? Hans van Thiel [snip]
To Jerzy's point -- I strongly believe that learning a language like Prolog is a good idea for two reasons -- first, it adds another tool to the programmer's toolkit, and second, it enlarges the programmer's view of ways to think about solving problems.
-- Bill Wood