May2005Meeting

May Meeting

Wednesday, May 11th, 2005 6:30pm at Free Geek, 1741 SE 10th Ave

Ovid, talking about Prolog (slides)

The "holy grail" of computing, for many, is simply telling the computer what you want and have it figure out how to do it. Prolog is a step in this direction.

And are you proud of your refactoring in Perl? Do you worship DRY? (Don't repeat yourself?) Have you ever cringed when you had to reverse map a hash to lookup something by value? This and other "forced duplication" hacks are often unecessary in Prolog. By the time the talk is done, programmers will understand why Prolog is code reuse on steroids.

And despite all of that, it's probably one of the easiest languages to learn (though it can be rather hard to master.)