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Re:Why did Prolog lose steam? (2010) by nerdponx on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @01:50AM (#35624690)
What about Prolog as an embedded constraint-solving engine inside an application written in some other host language?
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Re:Why did Prolog lose steam? (2010) by usgroup on Wednesday April 19, 2023 @02:12AM (#35624814)
I think embedding Prolog is a common use case for it, but I think “constraint solver” is the wrong metaphor.

Use Prolog to “reason about X”, is closer to the gist.

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