Hi Jan, Any chance you could encourage people in industry to give a webinar on their use of Prolog in commercial / enterprise settings. What they did and lessons learned. I think that could be invaluable to have … thanks, Dan

Yes, i am aware of it – but its a bridge not a seamless integration into the JVM. You couldn’t use prolog to seamlessly subclass a java class, for example.

[image] grossdan: You couldn’t use prolog to seamlessly subclass a java class, for example. Was that suppose to be: You can not subclass logic programming (Prolog) with Java While it would be nice to access Prolog in Java via subclass, why such importance on this requirement? I agree tha…

Hi Eric, Let me clarify: The same motivation for making Scala and Clojure a JVM language – to seamlessly benefit from the immense Java ecosystem – could drive making Prolog a JVM language. Note both Clojure and Scala are multi-paradigm language supporting Object Orientation as well as functional …

[image] grossdan: hope i am making sense, Yes Personally I am not a fan of multi-paradigm languages that bolt on features after the first major release. It makes the syntax harder to write and comprehend and often comes with work arounds that if you are not aware of allow you to quickly shoo…

Its quite possible that multi-paradigm is just a means to get acceptance (e.g. functional paradigm) in mainstream (OO paradigm) – but, then, it does help get acceptance in mainstream … which has all the benefits that come with it … Functional programming was quite a niche, and now its gaining a lot…

The route to consider Prolog a dedicated sub language for solving particular problems has been explored quite a bit. Amzi! is probably one of the most famous examples and we have seen various Prolog systems written in other frameworks, notably for the JVM. I guess some of them had some success but…

[image] grossdan: Any chance you could encourage people in industry to give a webinar on their use of Prolog in commercial / enterprise settings. What they did and lessons learned. My industry experience (outside support to others, mainly in working for startups, which are a world of its own……

Could you add hints how you addressed these in prolog projects with Logtalk and/or otherwise …

In a nutshell, by using the full Logtalk ecosystem, notably its developer tools ( https://logtalk.org/tools.html ), running on reliable and well supported Prolog systems (notably, but not exclusively, SWI-Prolog). An example is full support for automated testing in CI servers complying with industry …

One of the interesting applications is the Bayesian (probabilistic) programming, in which ProbLog goes. See their GitHub repository . And DARPA working with the industry funding and nudging the research of probabilistic programming systems . For example there are attempts to combine deep learning with…

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