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Subject: Re: lisp productivity question - (nf)
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Date: Tue, 29-Nov-83 22:25:19 EST
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uiucdcs!marcel    Nov 29 19:04:00 1983

And now a plug from the logic programming people: try prolog for easy
debugging. Though it may take a while to get used to its modus operandi,
it has one advantage that is shared by no other language I know of:
rule-based computing with a clean formalism. Not to mention the ease
of implementing concepts such as "for all X satisfying P(X) do ...".
The end of cumbersome array traversals and difficult boolean conditions!
Well, almost. Not to mention free pattern matching. And I wager that
the programs will be even shorter in Prolog, primarily because of these
considerations. I have written 100-line Prolog programs which were
previously coded as Pascal programs of 2000 lines.

Sorry, I just couldn't resist the chance to be obnoxious.