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From: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.misc
Subject: Re: Language Tenets (was Re: Double Width Integer Multiplication and Division
Message-ID: <1219@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 26 Jul 89 20:46:37 GMT
References: <57125@linus.UUCP> <1989Jun24.230056.27774@utzoo.uucp> <1207@quintus.UUCP> <1406@l.cc.purdue.edu> <2568@etive.ed.ac.uk> <605@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Reply-To: pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte)
Organization: Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
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In article <605@skye.ed.ac.uk> jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton) writes:
>In article <1207@quintus.UUCP>, pds@quintus.UUCP (Peter Schachte) writes:
>> What good are expressions if you can't nest them?
>What good is Prolog?

Prolog is very good (1/2 :-) [for those who don't get the joke, Quintus
sells Prolog systems].

Prolog avoids this whole problem by using relational, rather than
functional, notation.  This means that multiple values may be returned
by a Prolog procedure in exactly the same way as as single value is.

-- 
-Peter Schachte
pds@quintus.uucp
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