Curated / Beyond Tabs
Articles and discussions about the languages covered here, with editorial notes.
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Prolog
Hacker News · Published January 26, 2025
thunderbong, HN user
A January 2025 Hacker News discussion on The Simplicity of Prolog generated over 120 comments debating the language's limitations and modern viability. Long-time practitioners criticized Prolog's abstraction features, first-class…
Prolog
Hacker News · Published July 18, 2024
overclock351, HN user
A July 2024 Hacker News thread asking "What's Prolog like in 2024?" generated over 250 comments debating its modern relevance. Practitioners highlighted Scryer Prolog's strict ISO conformance and 24x memory efficiency for string…
Prolog
Hacker News · Published September 11, 2023
_benj, HN user
A September 2023 Hacker News discussion on The Power of Prolog garnered over 100 comments, with practitioners describing the language as a "mind bending" paradigm shift for constraint solving and symbolic AI. Multiple users cited…
Prolog
Internet Archive · Published October 25, 1996
David Hovel, Microsoft Research
Microsoft embedded the Small Prolog interpreter within Windows NT's network configuration subsystem (NCPA.CPL) to declaratively solve the "plumbing" problem of binding interdependent drivers and protocols. According to the paper,…