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Comment by qohen

ROFL.

Like Lisp and Smalltalk, Prolog was used primarily in the 1980s, so it was run on Unix workstations and also, to some extent, on PCs. (There were even efforts to create hardware designed to run Prolog a la Lisp machines.)

And, like Lisp and Smalltalk, Prolog can be very nice for iterative development/rapid prototyping (where the prototypes might be good enough to put into production).

The people who dealt with Prolog on punchcards were the academics who created and/or refined it in its early days. [0]

[0] https://softwarepreservation.computerhistory.org/prolog/

parent qohen 9 months ago

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