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philip_roberts | 13 years ago

Ooh, I forgot all about prolog!

I worked through the 7 languages in 7 weeks book, and solving a sudoku with prolog blew my mind. I think the first "real" programming I did was a sudoku solver in Excel and VBScript (yeuch).

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octo_t|13 years ago

Prolog is really awesome (and impressive) for solvers where there is an "optimum" solution for what you want.

Its fairly trivial to write a checkers AI in prolog if you can define what you want + need: