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arein3
55 days ago
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Learn Prolog Now (2006)
We had it in university courses and it seemed useless. DSL for backtracking.
a96
55 days ago
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Yes. As an add-on or library, it could be useful, but as a language it's just a forgotten dead end.
arein3
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And for some cases it's easier to understand if you write the backtracking yourself, and can edit/debug it. That is in case you write readable code professionally, as such algorhythms are not very intuitive for a person who sees it first time.
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