• Treczoks@lemm.ee
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    1 year ago

    We did Prolog in university - actually it was one of the two languages we had to learn in CS, the other one being Pascal.

    I always considered Prolog a pain in the ass and unsuitable for anything bigger than a piece of homework due to the “we don’t do loops, we have tail recursion” making the code unnecessary complex and hard to read. On a list of Write-Only languages I’d rate it a few steps below Perl.

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      1 year ago

      There’s a few things it’s very good at, but anything outside of that tends to be painful.

      I also used Pascal and Prolog in university, in my first year. That was… 15 years ago now. Wow.