[osm3000]

I studied prolog back in 2014. It was used in AI course. I found it very confusing: trying to code A*, N-Queens, or anything in it was just too much. Python, in contrast, was a god-send. I failed the subject twice in my MSc (luckily passing the MSc was based on the total average), but did a similar course in UC Berkeley, with python: aced it, loved it, and learned a lot.

Never again :D

[freitzzz]

A similar thing happened at my university in an Advanced Algorithms course. Students failed it so much, the university was forced to make the course easier to pass, by removing the minimum grade to pass.

I believe your case (and many other students) is that you couldn't abstract yourself from imperative programming (python) into logic programming (prolog).

[scotty79]

It's a query language for graph database. You can write A* and N-Queens in SQL, but why?

[hunterpayne]

Performance, far better performance. Same reason you ever use SQL. Prolog can do the same thing for very specific problems.

PS Prolog is a Horn clause solver. You characterizing it as a query language for a graph database, well it doesn't put you in the best light. It makes it seem like you don't understand important foundational CS math concepts.