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		Jtsummers 3 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Prolog's Eternal September (2017) > Why does it have to be via a new language? Prolog is not a new language, it's been around for 53 years. > Why not instead do it via teaching about constraints solvers? Prolog is used for more than just constraint solving. If that's all you think it does, perhaps you could consider studying it and finding out what it can do.

charcircuit 3 months ago [–]

I meant new to the person learning about it.

I have no interest in studying prolog to extract what knowledge from it would be practical.

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