On 7/12/2016 1:41 AM, Ola Fosheim Grøstad wrote:
And to be frank D's symbol resolution isn't suitable for
programming-in-the-large
either.
Explain.
> teaching
Frictionless masses are useful for teaching engineering, but are not
useful in the real world, which tends to be complicated and dirty, just
like useful programming languages.
Of course, Prolog is old and there are also other alternatives for
various types of problem solving, but the fact that almost every CS
student have some understanding of Prolog unification makes it very
influential.
I asked for one feature originating in Prolog that made its way into
mainstream languages.
You dismissed C++'s enormous influence in getting languages to adopt
OOP, but defend Prolog influencing others with unification.
