There it is. That’s it, 95% of what I want to say is in the title—Prolog is great! What follows is just commentary. All those of have contributed to SWI-Prolog or any other Prolog in any way, you all have my accolades, and my deep appreciation. I’ll explain briefly why. A couple of years ago, I dec…

In my mind, Prolog once used in earnest, is the kind of language that makes it very hard to go back to other languages … I felt a lot of “cognitive pain” when I rewrote some code in C … Dan

I heartily agree! Most of my “day job” work is in Clojure, which I do love…but SWI-Prolog makes me even happier to use. It’s not only incredibly powerful but so delightful to work with that it makes me seek out problems which I can use Prolog to solve.

The beauty of SWI-Prolog - hotloading code Just along the lines of what has been posted, recently I had a long running process (hours and hours) and I needed to correct a small issue. I couldn’t stop the process. Well…SWI-Prolog came to the rescue: it is able to hot load code on the fly! Here is a …

How many of you realize that SWI-Prolog is an excellent, genuinely excellent language?

Nice to know

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How many of you realize that SWI-Prolog is an excellent, genuinely excellent language?

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