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From: jeff@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Benchmark Programs
Message-ID: <3681@skye.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 31 Oct 90 20:05:46 GMT
References: <1744@ecrc.de>
Reply-To: jeff@aiai.UUCP (Jeff Dalton)
Organization: AIAI, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
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In article <1744@ecrc.de> micha@ecrc.de (Micha Meier) writes:

>Prolog has not a very good reputation in the CS field
>(I was actually quite surprized when I found out at the last
>IFIP Congress that very few of the people there take Prolog seriously),
>one reason for that is certainly its slowness.

The Prolog folk are already *obsessed* with speed.
This can only make it worse.