43 points | by Jtsummers 4 days ago
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I discovered Prolog in my youth, and logic has been something of an addiction ever since - not always, I suspect, a particularly useful one.
Lately, though, I have found what may be an antidote in Emacs, Lisp, and functional programming.
Then again, perhaps I have merely traded one elegant addiction for another.
I actually asked Dr Colmerauer once if the original program code had survived, but sadly he did not believe any of it was still around.
I discovered Prolog in my youth, and logic has been something of an addiction ever since - not always, I suspect, a particularly useful one.
Lately, though, I have found what may be an antidote in Emacs, Lisp, and functional programming.
Then again, perhaps I have merely traded one elegant addiction for another.
I actually asked Dr Colmerauer once if the original program code had survived, but sadly he did not believe any of it was still around.