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- From: sjmccaug@prairienet.org (Scott J. McCaughrin)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.c++
- Subject: Re: Will Java kill C++?
- Date: 12 Apr 1996 01:39:00 GMT
- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
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- In a previous article, ferguson@tc.pw.com (Don Ferguson) says:
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- >Joe Kraska wrote:
- >The claim that Prolog was heavily marketed is misinformed. I worked
- >for Quintus (a leading Prolog vendor) for 10 years, and they
- >barely even had a marketing department. There was a bit of media hype
- >surrounding Prolog and the Japanese 5th generation project, but there
- >was never the groundswell of programmer interest in Prolog like there
- >is for Java. Prolog is quite powerful, but it is a difficult language
- >to master, and that is the main reason(IMHO) that it has never become
- >popular.
- >
- I suspect two factors (at least) may have been responsible for the
- cool reception Prolog received. First, its use of unification came
- to many as a mystery, and few textbooks (not to mention, manuals)
- were adept at demystifying the concept. Secondly, many of the trans-
- lators were relatively useless for debugging.
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- sjm
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