Re: Prolog programming job?

"Bart Demoen" <bmd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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In article <1156871899.011975.119310@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
mctodd333@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


I'm a recent CS graduate and I've recently developed an
interest in Prolog. I was wondering how popular it is in the software
business world. What kind of applications would
companies work on in Prolog?

Erlang is evidently influenced by Prolog:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_programming_languages


No more than other functional languages, I believe. The
syntax, however, is intentionally very similar. Whether
it actually drew the attention of Prologers to Erlang is
another matter.


Erlang was infinitely more influenced by Prolog than other
functional languages were.
Joe Armstrong (Erlang's father) has an Erlang Tutorial on the
net. It says:

1986 - Erlang emerges as dialect of Prolog. Implementation is
a Prolog interpretor - 1

Sure, Bart, the first implementation of Erlang was as a
prolog interpreter. Thereafter ...

However, this is not to say that Erlang more than other
functional languages was significantly _influenced_ by
Prolog. It simply means that Prolog was taken in use as
a prototyping tool -- and a fine one it is.

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