Re:Constraints (1981) [pdf]
by joe_the_user on Sunday June 20, 2021 @08:10PM
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I think the approach eventually petered-out or was incorporated entirely into other approaches.
But I have on my bookshelf Principles And Practice of Constraint Programming, edited by Saraswat and Van Hentenryck (1995) and wikipedia has an entry for the approach [1]. So the paradigm was up-and-coming for a time. A lot of ideas can rise and fall over forty years. Broadly, it was more or less part of logic programming, which was part of the symbolic/GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) paradigm, which naturally has been waning for many years.
But I have on my bookshelf Principles And Practice of Constraint Programming, edited by Saraswat and Van Hentenryck (1995) and wikipedia has an entry for the approach [1]. So the paradigm was up-and-coming for a time. A lot of ideas can rise and fall over forty years. Broadly, it was more or less part of logic programming, which was part of the symbolic/GOFAI (good old fashioned AI) paradigm, which naturally has been waning for many years.
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constraint_programming