Re:The Power of Prolog
by tom_mellior on Friday April 10, 2020 @03:29AM
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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.
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.