alt Hacker NewsWhat do people use Prolog for in the real world? I learned about it on a university course and it seems so esoteric compared to other things on the course. Like something invented just for computer scientists to enjoy.
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Some applications were discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40994552
Dunno about Prolog, but Datomic uses datalog for its query language, and it’s excellent. Datalog is a subset of Prolog.
> What do people use Prolog for in the real world?
Here[0] is an example of using Ruby and Prolog to solve a real-world AWS management problem.
0 - https://web.archive.org/web/20190525163234/https://dev.to/da...
Everything, you heard the joke about those who don't know Lisp end up reinventing it, well, the same can be said for Prolog.
20+ years ago, it was the backend for the business rules engine that processed various logging and monitoring events. The concept was interesting, the performance was terrible, and businesses mostly didn't want to touch it. After I setup clients with a generic set of rules that worked on Prolog facts, most all of my clients were happy to limit their changes to only those fact files.