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From: Robert Dewar <robert_dewar@my-deja.com>
Subject: Re: Erlang (Was Re: Answering an Ada/COBOL Question)
Date: 1999/11/19
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In article <873du5ik0b.fsf@antinea.enst.fr>,
  Samuel Tardieu <sam@ada.eu.org> wrote:
> >>>>> "Vladimir" == Vladimir Olensky
<vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> writes:

> Right, but once must note that one strength of Prolog have
> been (purposely) removed: backtracking.

This is sort of like saying that something is like Ada except
that strong typing has been removed :-)

The only interesting thing about Prolog is the pattern matching
and backtracking!


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