On Sep 2, 2007, at 2:08 , Peter Verswyvelen wrote:

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But after reading http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ Fifth_generation_computer, it seemed to me that Prolog was a dead language, having only pure theoretical purposes. Is this true?

Tell that to the order pricing system I wrote in Prolog for a customer site in the early 90s. (Admittedly, I did eventually rewrite it in C.). -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH