On Tuesday, 12 July 2016 at 05:30:57 UTC, Walter Bright wrote:
On 7/11/2016 10:01 PM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
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.
Can you trace any Prolog innovations in
C/C++/Java/C#/Go/Rust/D/Swift/Javascript/Fortran/Lisp?
I think you are taking the wrong view here. Logic programming is
a generalized version of functional programming where you can
have complex expressions in the left hand side. It is basically
unification:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_(computer_science)#Application:_Unification_in_logic_programming
So yes, many languages are drawing on those principles in their
type systems.
