Those cheeky logic languages!

[Jan Burse]

LoL, this made me laugh (in the interview section for Prolog):

"Prolog is a wonderful language, but until you drink the Kool-Aid, it
can give you some pretty weird results. I recall one of my first
experiments with Prolog, writing something along the lines of x = x + 1.
Prolog responded “no.” Languages don’t just say “no.” They might give
the wrong answer or fail to compile, but I had never had a language talk
back to me. So, I called Prolog support and said that the language had
said “no” when I tried to change the value of a variable. They asked me,
“Why would you want to change the value of a variable?” I mean, what
kind of language won’t let you change the value of a variable? Once you
grok Prolog, you understand that variables either have particular values
or are unbound, but it was unsettling at the time."

http://pragprog.com/book/btlang/seven-languages-in-seven-weeks

[Dhu on Gate]

Hehe. I learned C after learning assembler and Prolog and this
business of casually (and indirectly) modifying assigned values
has always kinda bugged me ;)

Dhu

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