From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: histrionics
Date: 1999/09/11
Date: 1999-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <7rcckp$b12$1@nnrp1.deja.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: rtiq3si91iv24@corp.supernews.com
In article <rtiq3si91iv24@corp.supernews.com>,
"Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Another thing is that it may be difficult for many people to
grasp
> the idea of backtracking and recursion and be able to
understand
> program execution that uses them.
No, in Prolog, the difficulty is not understanding the
backtracking, that's the easy part, or it would be easy
if it were pure, but the cut operator is like falling
off a semantic cliff, and the frequent need to use cut
is a severe disappointment.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-09 0:00 histrionics G
1999-09-08 0:00 ` histrionics Preben Randhol
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics G
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics Nick Roberts
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Ted Dennison
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Bob Collins
1999-09-12 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-13 0:00 ` histrionics Ted Dennison
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Robert Dewar [this message]
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-13 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-14 0:00 ` histrionics Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7s2l7b$kmr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
[not found] ` <37E81661.6DCA23E4@mitre.org>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
[not found] ` <7saju5$6h6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics p.obry
1999-09-23 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
1999-09-23 0:00 ` Sums of cubes (was Re: histrionics) Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-27 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-23 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
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