From: "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: histrionics
Date: 1999/09/11
Date: 1999-09-11T00:00:00+00:00 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <rtk7od9h1iv79@corp.supernews.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 7rcckp$b12$1@nnrp1.deja.com
Robert Dewar wrote in message <7rcckp$b12$1@nnrp1.deja.com>...
>In article <rtiq3si91iv24@corp.supernews.com>,
> "Vladimir Olensky" <vladimir_olensky@yahoo.com> wrote:
>> Another thing is that it may be difficult for many people to
>grasp
>> the idea of backtracking and recursion and be able to
>understand
>> program execution that uses them.
>
>No, in Prolog, the difficulty is not understanding the
>backtracking, that's the easy part, or it would be easy
>if it were pure, but the cut operator is like falling
>off a semantic cliff, and the frequent need to use cut
>is a severe disappointment.
I had this in mind when was talking about backtracking.
In Prolog cut operator significantly complicates
comprehending of the backtracking process.
Regards.
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Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1999-09-09 0:00 histrionics G
1999-09-08 0:00 ` histrionics Preben Randhol
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics G
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics Nick Roberts
1999-09-09 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-10 0:00 ` histrionics Ted Dennison
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Bob Collins
1999-09-12 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-13 0:00 ` histrionics Ted Dennison
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Vladimir Olensky
1999-09-14 0:00 ` histrionics Robert I. Eachus
[not found] ` <7s2l7b$kmr$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
[not found] ` <37E81661.6DCA23E4@mitre.org>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics p.obry
[not found] ` <7saju5$6h6$1@nnrp1.deja.com>
1999-09-22 0:00 ` histrionics Robert I. Eachus
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 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Robert I. Eachus
1999-09-24 0:00 ` Wes Groleau
1999-09-25 0:00 ` Robert Dewar
1999-09-23 0:00 ` histrionics Ehud Lamm
1999-09-11 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
1999-09-11 0:00 ` Vladimir Olensky [this message]
1999-09-13 0:00 ` histrionics Robert Dewar
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