Questions from my student

I got the following questions from a student in my programming languages
class.

"Also do you know who is using Prolog nowadays? any companies? what kind of
business would be interested in it?"

I strive to tell my class that Prolog is conceptually important and
practically useful, and declarative languages are the way to go in the long
run (Microsoft is even designing a new declarative language called D), but
most students seem not convinced. Any suggestion on how to raise students'
interest in Prolog and in declarative programming in general?

Cheers,
Neng-Fa



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