> Arguably, the imperative programming paradigm is a more natural fit with the von Neumann computer architecture
Prolog's lack of popularity suggests that viewing a computer program as a pure (first order predicate) logic construct isn't a powerful way of thinking in general. That is a bit of a blow to all the programmers who seem to secretly want to be mathematicians because that in turn suggests that the logical aspects of programming are subordinate to hardware realities.
I've gotten a lot of joy out of the Neural Networking fad similarly eclipsing the logic-based AI people. Logic is important and it isn't going away, but reality has too much uncertainty for simple logic to work in practice. The statistically grounded approach makes me happier, and again computer hardware's power is overwhelming the efforts of the logicians to tie everything down to certainties.
Great language though, everyone should take a look at it to see what a different programming model might be.
Prolog's lack of popularity suggests that viewing a computer program as a pure (first order predicate) logic construct isn't a powerful way of thinking in general. That is a bit of a blow to all the programmers who seem to secretly want to be mathematicians because that in turn suggests that the logical aspects of programming are subordinate to hardware realities.
I've gotten a lot of joy out of the Neural Networking fad similarly eclipsing the logic-based AI people. Logic is important and it isn't going away, but reality has too much uncertainty for simple logic to work in practice. The statistically grounded approach makes me happier, and again computer hardware's power is overwhelming the efforts of the logicians to tie everything down to certainties.
Great language though, everyone should take a look at it to see what a different programming model might be.