Subject: Re: [lojban] Prolog for Lojbanists (was: lojban application in wearable computing)

From: Invent Yourself <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 11:15:15 -0500 (EST)

On Thu, 14 Mar 2002, John Cowan wrote:

> Rob Speer scripsit:
>
> > I wish I knew something about what Prolog was.
>
> Short summary of Prolog for Lojbanists:
>
> To which the Prolog system will reply "la fred." The system sees that
> "ma patpatfu la fred." matches the rule head "da patpatfu de" and then
> attempts to match the members of the conjunct against existing facts
> or rule heads.

This makes it seem that Prolog is an elegant solution for a Lojban
inference engine. Can the same be said of Lisp?

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