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		biokoda on June 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative t... The vast majority of programmers never used or cared about Prolog.

porker on June 23, 2015 | [–]

They have missed out.

In terms of elegance, I've never written anything that surpasses Prolog.

For a defined subset of problems.

pjmlp on June 23, 2015 | [–]

Most Portuguese universities had Prolog on their CS degrees in the 90's.

Also most companies HR departments will ignore CVs without an EE or CS degree from those same universities.

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