jamesbvaughan.com
Languages and libraries
prolog web server
SHOW HN2016
238points
70comments
#104of 2,264 in 2016
Top 5%of 2016 by points
How HN took it
DebatedReal support and real criticism
3 positive, 4 neutral or asking, 0 mixed, 3 critical, out of 10 comments about the project. Thread score -0.04.
Idea: 2 for, 2 againstExecution: 0 for, 1 against
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What people liked
Fun and interesting to read about Prolog
From 3 comments
Pretty cool. I also did a stint messing around with Prolog and it was pretty awesome discovering an entirely new programming paradigm. I ended up doing the Priceonomics puzzle…
dangoldin on HNThis is really fun. Thanks for sharing!
p4bl0 on HNAwesome, one of the most fun i had at university was building a Uri parser with prolog. After i discovered that you could define operators i built a combinatorial parser,…
ga2arch on HN
Objections
Server is not a good use of Prolog
From 1 comment
The class I was taking kind of blew my mind when I saw how you can solve some problems in such cool ways with Prolog, but I would certainly admit that this server isn't exactly…
jamesbvaughan on HN
Site went down under traffic
From 1 comment
Site seem to be down. `Error establishing a database connection`
sleepprogger on HN
Alternatives named
SWI Prolog web libraries
From 1 comment
You might be surprised! SWI Prolog has libraries for web applications (http://www.pathwayslms.com/swipltuts/html/index.html) and other modern application development toolkits.…
doublec on HN
Mercury
From 1 comment
James, check out Mercury next as it's a faster, better Prolog with some industrial use. https://mercurylang.org
nickpsecurity on HN
pyDatalog
From 1 comment
I appreciate you taking the time. Your approach shows the first steps towards building an inference engine in Python, but these are all very trivial examples. The difference…
siddboots on HN