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0 pointslispm2y ago0 comments

I don't think Prolog is a single paradigm language. It just has one dominant paradigm: Logic Programming. But in actual Prolog systems you'll find procedural programming, constraint programming, object-oriented programming, meta programming (programming on the language level).

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klabb32y ago

TIL. Would it be better to say that Prolog is a general purpose PL, albeit more archaic than what we typically think of?

lispmOP2y ago

I don't know what you mean by "archaic".

But here are a few pointers:

Visual Prolog, https://www.visual-prolog.com

Once it was Borland's Turbo Prolog. Quote: "It combines the best features of logical, functional, and object-oriented programming paradigms, offering a powerful, type-safe, high-level language. Visual Prolog is well-suited for developing applications for Microsoft Windows 32/64 platforms and supports advanced client-server and three-tier solutions."

There is a comparison of Prolog implementations on Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Prolog_implement...

This explains the OOP extensions of SICStus Prolog.

https://sicstus.sics.se/sicstus/docs/3.7.1/html/sicstus_35.h...

I haven't researched this, but there should be zillions of language extensions like this to Prolog. It is one of the symbolic AI languages, as such it has a long history of extensions.

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