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From: "Robin Hamilton" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Sunday, May 15, 2005 9:35 AM
Subject: Re: Cocooned in Dylanesque or is Albert Einstein indeed God?
>> > Prolog anyone?
>> >
>> I must confess that I have forgotten just about everything I ever knew
> about
>> it. As I recall there is only one book on the subject and that may be
> buried
>> upstairs.
>
> Wasn't it at one point the AI language-of-choice?
>
> But they're all dead in the water now, bar C+(+).
>
> How the whirligig of time brings its revenges.
>
> Tithonius
>
> I once got a piece of advice (Douglas will appreciate this) from Philip
> Hobsbaum -- "Never mention a pop song in a poem. It dates you."
>
> Goes treble for computer languages -- "Where are the codings of Fortran
> today?"
>
> Villon on a bad autumn morning
>
I checked my catalogue and I havent got the Prolog book. Although I do
remember once doing something very clever in Prolog using building blocks.
But that would be quite impossible for me nowadays.
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