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Re:The Power of Prolog by deckard1 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @05:40PM (#22817487)
I think the reason no one uses Prolog is simply because generalized backtracking problems (i.e. the problems you would use Prolog for) are too computationally expensive and infrequent enough that:

a) You would never train staff or hire experts on Prolog for such few problems and...

b) You could probably do much better with a heuristic algorithm anyway. Especially on hardware of the day when Prolog came out, but even today I imagine this holds true.

Prolog may be useful for quick exploration of a problem space. But for code that needs to run frequently, there just isn't a great need for what Prolog has to offer.

Re:The Power of Prolog by tom_mellior on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:29AM (#22830799)
I just posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22830791 in a cousin thread addressing this criticism. Prolog is about more than search, unification is a very very powerful tool for matching and transforming data.