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IMO it sits at quite a higher level of programming. You use logic programming to explore ~infinite program states; all that in extremely concise (near fully declarative of course) ways.

In Bratko's prolog book you quickly get to do graph processing, some algorithms are 4 clauses and almost word for word what you have in mind. It's mind boggling to me.

You also have bidirectional reasoning, you don't have to write a function A => B and then another one for B => A. It's even more telling with multivariate functions. I knew a guy who needed something similar for a large application. He needed a way to reason backward with incomplete parameters.




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