I think that might be my favorite department/lab website I've ever come across. Really fun. Doesn't at all align with the contemporary design status quo and it shows just how good a rich website can be on a large screen. Big fan.
I remember learning it in univerisity. It's a really weird language to reason with IMO. But really fun. However I've heard the performances are not that good if you wanna make e.g. game AIs with it.
I know you likely mean regular Prolog, but that's actually fairly easy and intuitive to reason with (code dependent). Lambda Prolog is much, much harder to reason about IMO and there's a certain intractability to it because of just how complex the language is.
With λProlog in particular I think it probably finds most of its use in specifying and reasoning about systems/languages/logics, e.g. with Abella. I don't think many people are running it in production as an implementation language.
First of all, it helps to actually use a proper compiled Prolog implementation like SWI Prolog.
Second you really need to understand and fine tune cuts, and other search optimization primitives.
Finally in what concerns Game AIs, it is a mixture of algorithms and heuristics, a single paradigm language (first order logic) like Prolog, can't be a tool for all nails.
I was responding to @TheRoque GP; I know λProlog quite well and I would be pleasantly surprised if they saw that in university, but I think they got taught Prolog. If you mean to say that they saw Lambda Prolog and it is therefor a lot more popular than I believed it to be, then excellent and ignore this reply.
I'm curious to see how AI is going to reshape research in programming languages. Statically typed languages with expressive type systems should be even more relevant for instance.
https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/
[1]: https://www.lix.polytechnique.fr/~dale/lProlog/proghol/extra...
I know you likely mean regular Prolog, but that's actually fairly easy and intuitive to reason with (code dependent). Lambda Prolog is much, much harder to reason about IMO and there's a certain intractability to it because of just how complex the language is.
Second you really need to understand and fine tune cuts, and other search optimization primitives.
Finally in what concerns Game AIs, it is a mixture of algorithms and heuristics, a single paradigm language (first order logic) like Prolog, can't be a tool for all nails.