Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!samsung!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!stanford.edu!unix!unix.sri.com!dowding From: dowding@ai.sri.com (John Dowding) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Aphorism Message-ID: Date: 30 Mar 91 07:24:52 GMT References: <1991Mar30.050451.27177@athena.cs.uga.edu> Sender: news@unix.SRI.COM Organization: SRI International, Menlo Park, CA Lines: 18 In-reply-to: mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu's message of 30 Mar 91 05:04:51 GMT In article <1991Mar30.050451.27177@athena.cs.uga.edu> mcovingt@athena.cs.uga.edu (Michael A. Covington) writes: "Whew! That was the shortest runway I ever landed on! But boy, was it *wide*!" The point is of course that Prolog is simple in places where one expects it to be complex, and vice versa. A fear years ago, the NFL put out a magazine called 'PROLOG' that described the players and teams of the upcoming professional football season. On the front cover was a picture of Jerry Rice flying through the air at break-neck speed, trying to catch an odd shaped ball, just as someone who was real big was about to hit him real hard. That has always seemed somewhat appropriate to me. John Dowding dowding@ai.sri.com