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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by Blackthorn on Friday February 13, 2015 @12:21AM (#9043020)
Where this argument loses me is that I have yet to see a single Lisp person going around extolling the virtues of Prolog, a language that is also homoiconic and has macros.

(If Lisp people want to start doing that though, I'd be happy. Prolog is great.)

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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by hga on Friday February 13, 2015 @09:29AM (#9044463)
A lot of Lispers are interested in logic programming, if not Prolog. It's in SICP, it's the topic of The Reasoned Schemer (www.amazon.com/Reasoned-Schemer-Daniel-P-Friedman/dp/0262562146/), Shen includes a Prolog and you can use its syntax: http://www.shenlanguage.org/learn-shen/prolog.html

So you'll have to modify your statement at minimum to "a single person other than Mark Tarver" ^_^.

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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by mjburgess on Monday February 16, 2015 @04:18AM (#9055979)
Well I would, I often mention logic programming in the same list as functional. However, lisp is simply awesome/powerful/etc. while logic and more formal-abstract kinds of programming (from Prolog to Haskell) are "difficultly" awesome.
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Re:Lisp as the Maxwell Equations of Software (2012) by molloy on Friday February 13, 2015 @01:04AM (#9043129)
Maybe that's because a "Lisp person" who did so would be considered a "Prolog person." :)

I'll give Prolog a shot!

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