Popular conceit about learning programming languages

[Erik Max Francis]

Alex Martelli wrote:

> I
> think (not sure) that the first Prolog interpreter was coded in Lisp,
> presumably with similar intentions.

I know that the first incarnations of Prolog had a Lisp-like syntax; I
don't know offhand if they were actually implemented in Lisp, though. 
(Eventually the Edinburgh syntax won out; I remember picking up a
microProlog book at a used technical bookstore which talked about the
archaic syntax and was intrigued, when I asked about it was, ahem,
politely informed that that variant had gone the way of the dodo.)


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