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"Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks

Strange Loop Conference · 57.6K views · 2014-09-21 · 39:58

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Michael Hendricks of PriceCharting shares tricks and pain points from running Prolog in production for 18 months at Strange Loop. It argues Prolog is a productive modern language beyond logic puzzles, and includes a demo of changing code mid-execution.

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It is the go-to answer to whether Prolog is used for real-world work, praised as a survey of its uses, advantages and drawbacks.

Recommended by 6 HN people across 6 months · HN mentions 2015–2023

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samuell · 2019-10 · Strong recommendation

For an awesome video showcasing a bit of the real power of Prolog, you need to check (if you haven't already) this Strangeloop talk: "Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks [VIDEO]

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abathologist · 2015-03 · Strong recommendation

You might be interested in these SO answers regarding "Real world Prolog Usage": [LINK] The answers are replete with claims about good use-cases for Prolog. Michael Hendricks' talk at last year's Strange Loop on "Production Prolog" gives an excellent high-level survey of the uses, advantages, and drawbacks of Prolog: [VIDEO] BTW, I have played a tiny bit with Flora2 myself. It seemed really neat. If you're interested in the intersection of OO and Prolog, you may also want to look at Logtalk[0]. FWIW, if I understand your meaning correctly, it is very easy to "pass rules as parameters to other rules" in vanilla Prolog. It facilitates all sorts of higher-order approaches and is very good for meta-programming. [0]: [LINK]

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samuell · 2023-01 · Recommendation

Check out "Production Prolog" by Michael Hendricks on YouTube, which demonstrates the same thing, at a talk at StrangeLoop: [VIDEO]

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