On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 04:52:14 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
"Prolog and other logic programming languages have not had a significant impact on the computer industry in general."

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prolog#Limitations

So, no.

That appears to be a 1995 reference from a logic programming languages conference. Of course logic programming has had a big impact on state of the art.

Prolog -> Datalog
Datalog -> magic sets
magic sets -> inference engines
inference engines  -> static analysis

And that is only a small part of it.

I'm afraid that is seriously mistaken about C++'s influence on the state of the art, in particular compile time polymorphism

Nah. You are confusing state-of-the-art with widespread system support.

Also, although C++ did not invent OOP, OOP's late 1980s surge in use, popularity, and yes, *influence* was due entirely to

In commercial application development sure. In terms of OOP principles and implementation, hell no.

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