Re: Storing data and code in a Db with LISP-like interface

"Neo" <neo55592_at_hotmail.com> wrote in message news:1144986888.222283.143660_at_z34g2000cwc.googlegroups.com...

> Below is a simple example that stores a person named John who likes
> Mary and then finds who John likes. Could you or someone familiar with
> Prolog show how to do this. Later I would like to extend the example to
> distill Prolog's fundamental forte (and possible weakness in
> representing things).

Get ready for a really long program!

    likes(john, mary).

That's it.

The query looks like this:

    ?- likes(john, Who)

the response is:

    Who = mary

Not much to it really.
I guess it is only interesting in the fact that your language takes about 30 lines to do what Prolog does in, what, one?

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