My Prolog programming assignment #4, a Prolog "nehcihsahA" detector (maternal uncle: a mother's brother, or any equivalent relative) seemed designed to make me hate Prolog with a passion, involving bending over backwards by defining ridiculous predicates like siblish, sibloid, relatoid, sistoid, brothoid, mothoid, and fathoid.
I much more enjoyed the OPS-5 programming assignment #6, for which I made a worm simulation that hacked into Ollie North's Intimus-007s ("the ace of security paper shredders") in the White House basement, via Professor Hendler's Sun workstation dormouse, rms's account with password rms on prep, and Casper Weinberger's account on UMD's Vax 11/780 mimsy and NSA's PDP-11/70 tycho, connected via the NSA's MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead, then posted Ollie North's secret diary and notes it found in the paper shredder to talk.rumors via the UCB-Vax usenet gateway.
>At the University of Maryland, our network access was through the NSA's "secret" MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead. It was pretty obvious that UMD got their network access via NSA, because mimsy.umd.edu had a similar "*.57" IP address as dockmaster, tycho and coins. [...]
> My Prolog programming assignment #4, a Prolog "nehcihsahA" detector (maternal uncle: a mother's brother, or any equivalent relative) seemed designed to make me hate Prolog with a passion, involving bending over backwards by defining ridiculous predicates
Your attempt at a solution definitely defines ridiculous predicates, but you should not blame that on your teacher or the language. For example, there is no way that defining "a mother's brother" would need to refer to a "same sex" predicate in any way. You took a wrong turn somewhere with your approach, but again it's neither the language nor your teacher that forced you down that path.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hendler
My Prolog programming assignment #4, a Prolog "nehcihsahA" detector (maternal uncle: a mother's brother, or any equivalent relative) seemed designed to make me hate Prolog with a passion, involving bending over backwards by defining ridiculous predicates like siblish, sibloid, relatoid, sistoid, brothoid, mothoid, and fathoid.
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/nehcihsaha.prolog.txt
I much more enjoyed the OPS-5 programming assignment #6, for which I made a worm simulation that hacked into Ollie North's Intimus-007s ("the ace of security paper shredders") in the White House basement, via Professor Hendler's Sun workstation dormouse, rms's account with password rms on prep, and Casper Weinberger's account on UMD's Vax 11/780 mimsy and NSA's PDP-11/70 tycho, connected via the NSA's MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead, then posted Ollie North's secret diary and notes it found in the paper shredder to talk.rumors via the UCB-Vax usenet gateway.
https://www.donhopkins.com/home/code/crack-ollie.ops5.txt
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18376750
>At the University of Maryland, our network access was through the NSA's "secret" MILNET IMP 57 at Fort Mead. It was pretty obvious that UMD got their network access via NSA, because mimsy.umd.edu had a similar "*.57" IP address as dockmaster, tycho and coins. [...]