Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ukma!psuvm.bitnet!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.software-eng Subject: Logic and symbolic programming Message-ID: <38799UH2@PSUVM> Date: 10 Apr 88 15:22:00 GMT Organization: Penn Sate Erie--School of Business Lines: 7 A CS student posted that he doubted that PROLOG and LISP, though "fun", would be much use to him when he got a job. Just for one example, current research in Database Systems clearly indicates that logic programming and database programming are converging. A person with some knowledge of Prolog, say, will be much better able to learn and use SQL or QUEL (current major database languages).