Strongly 2nd checking out Markus Triska's work. It's practically poetry.
It's really surprising to see someone at his level, a software reliability researcher no less, retain that level of passion about something. Usually folks with that level of experience are really grumpy and lose the evangelistic flair. I tend to maintain that level of evangelism about things I'm passionate for but no one would ever accuse me of being a "reliability researcher", lol.
In fact, I was/am a hardcore lisp hacker, and never in my life did I think I'd find something that would even come close to lisp for me. because it's FUN! but I'll be damned if Prolog isn't turning out to be even more fun in ways I didn't expect.
In fact the only thing I really miss about lisp at this point is structural editing (paredit and such).
And it's not like it's either/or, you can use both. But learning pure Prolog is really delightful if you follow the breadcrumbs (gold nuggets, honestly) Markus left.
It's really surprising to see someone at his level, a software reliability researcher no less, retain that level of passion about something. Usually folks with that level of experience are really grumpy and lose the evangelistic flair. I tend to maintain that level of evangelism about things I'm passionate for but no one would ever accuse me of being a "reliability researcher", lol.
In fact, I was/am a hardcore lisp hacker, and never in my life did I think I'd find something that would even come close to lisp for me. because it's FUN! but I'll be damned if Prolog isn't turning out to be even more fun in ways I didn't expect.
In fact the only thing I really miss about lisp at this point is structural editing (paredit and such).
And it's not like it's either/or, you can use both. But learning pure Prolog is really delightful if you follow the breadcrumbs (gold nuggets, honestly) Markus left.
If it doesn't kill you, that is!