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From: roland@sics.se (Roland Karlsson)
Subject: Re: Why hasn't Prolog Taken over the World?
In-Reply-To: mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk's message of 22 Nov 1994 16:18:43 GMT
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> This doesn't explain why C++ has taken over in a big way. After all,
> it was only a few years ago that it was a new language. Prolog is a
> relatively old langauge compared to C++.

The reason why C++ became so popular is that it was supposed to be
just an object extension to C, and there are lots of C programmer out
there, and objects that's what we need - right?.  Unfortunately, C++
is just an ugly kludge that introduces more problems than it solves.
But it is unclear if that will stop this C++ nonsense.  Only the
future will tell.

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