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Re:A Tour of Lisps by nerdponx on Monday January 29, 2024 @05:35PM (#39183705)
I'd like to see a practical use case for Minikanren other than quines. It's fun and interesting, but I'm not smart enough to go from "a tiny set of primitives" to "solving practical problems". I had trouble even implementing the basic "moses is a man" examples you see in Prolog tutorials.
Re:A Tour of Lisps by cmrdporcupine on Monday January 29, 2024 @07:16PM (#39184647)
Yeah me too I was just looking at an Elisp port (!) of minikanren the other day, and, yeah, all the examples were algorithmic puzzles, rather than solutions to problems.
Re:A Tour of Lisps by tmtvl on Monday January 29, 2024 @10:53PM (#39186217)
MiniKanren has been used in the medical world: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9562701/