RichardKennaway comments on Closet survey #1 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: RichardKennaway 29 November 2010 12:23:15AM 0 points [-]

I think Prolog, like Lisp, is mainly useful for being a different way of thinking about computation. The only practical industrial uses of Prolog I've ever heard of are some niche expert systems, a tool for exploring Unix systems for security vulnerabilities, and an implementation of part of the Universal Plug and Play protocol.