Re:The Power of Prolog
by alex_lav on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:15AM
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> Prolog is awesome and I recommend learning it if only for kicks and experiencing foreign programming paradigm. Many concepts are expressed in a completely different and (when paradigm "kicks in") are arguably much simpler.
Seconded. Probably the biggest mind-explosion type experience as a programmer in my entire life. Even something simple like building a Sudoku solver is insanely fun IMO.
Re:The Power of Prolog
by bmitc on Tuesday September 12, 2023 @03:27AM
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I agree. Prolog was the only time I've been very much mindblown when learning programming languages. Erlang/Elixir is a close follow-up, but thatbwas more of the seamless nature of it all and not really the ideas like Prolog.
Seconded. Probably the biggest mind-explosion type experience as a programmer in my entire life. Even something simple like building a Sudoku solver is insanely fun IMO.