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.
