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**Matt** @mmcknett@hachyderm.io · 3d *

I was excited to see a 40 year old Byte magazine featuring, among other declarative languages, Prolog. I learned Prolog for a quarter semester in one of my CS major’s intro classes…20 years ago.

https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/114903041821084842

A couple years ago, I looked around for a Prolog interpreter that would run on my mac, but didn’t find one. Funny how exuberant and optimistic this article was about the longevity of the language and the “logic programming” concept.

Hachyderm.ioThomas 🔭🕹️ (@thomasfuchs@hachyderm.io)@raymondcamden@mastodon.social Lots of them are readable online at archive.org, this BYTE issue is here: https://archive.org/details/byte-magazine-1985-08/mode/2up?view=theater

#prolog #logicprogramming

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**thezerobit** @thezerobit@anticapitalist.party · Jul 18 *

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thezerobit @thezerobit@anticapitalist.party

If you feel any #ImposterSyndrome as a programmer about calling yourself an "engineer", just start writing your backend server software in #Erlang. Yes, you'll have to learn #Prolog syntax. Yes, you'll have to learn how to do fully functional programming with only immutable data structures. Yes, it is fully asynchronous and designed for reliability and fault tolerance. Yes, it is highly dynamic and can do things like update running software remotely with new code with zero downtime.

**José A. Alonso** @Jose_A_Alonso@mathstodon.xyz · Jul 13

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**alg0w** @alg0w@vivaldi.net · Jul 11

Jul 11

alg0w @alg0w@vivaldi.net

@jnpn Interesting, and documented in a concrete language, so it is understandable by simple programmers. I think effect system is implementable in #Prolog using shift and reset (aka delimeted continuations).

**jnpn** @jnpn@mastodon.social · Jul 5

**Robin Palotai** @robinp@mastodon.social · Jul 1

Jul 1

Robin Palotai @robinp@mastodon.social

Revisited learning #Prolog via https://www.metalevel.at/prolog . It is somewhat chaotic (due to the interlinks and so non-linear order), but a great resource once you have some basic ideas what you are looking for.

A conclusion so far is that Prolog is much much more powerful and practical than was taught at the university (or, I might have benefited from taking the advanced level declarative programming too).

Well, one only starts to appreciate in hindsight.

www.metalevel.atThe Power of PrologIntroduction to modern Prolog

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**Dimly Lit Corners** @DimlyLitCorners@c.im · Jun 22 *

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Dimly Lit Corners @DimlyLitCorners@c.im

#Goals2025

Moving away from the constant upgrade cycle & moving closer to the ideals of #PermaComputing #MalleableSoftware

Design and setup a redundant system of old/used, cheap, low-power devices running ia: #Guix, #Linux, #FreeBSD, #macOS, #HaikuOS, #Plan9Front, #X11, #P9, #NFS, all working together