Re: Storing data and code in a Db with LISP-like interface
Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2006 10:30:04 +0300
Message-ID: <e24osg$jdg$1_at_emma.aioe.org>
"Nick Malik [Microsoft]" <nickmalik_at_hotmail.nospam.com> wrote in message news:eYGdnU3AkdfxS9jZnZ2dnUVZ_tGdnZ2d_at_comcast.com...
> yep. I was right. You've reinvented Prolog. Not that it needed
> reinventing. Don't feel bad. In 1983, I decided, while in college, to
> invent a language and write a compiler for it. I wrote the compiler in
> Pascal. Just after I finished the compiler, one of my class mates asked
me
> why I didn't write my compiler in C. My response: I didn't know C. He
> said, and I'm not kidding, "of course you do... this is a C compiler."
> The language I invented was, essentially, C. I was about 15 years(?) too
> late, of course. Kernigan and Richie had beat me to it long before. But
> there you have it... great minds and all that.
> So, in your quest for a flexible logic management schema, you've
reinvented
> Prolog.
> Congratulations.
LOL Received on Wed Apr 19 2006 - 09:30:04 CEST