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Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35623625 (2023) "Why Did Prolog Lose Steam (2010)"

Anecdotally, some years ago the Zebra Puzzle [1] made the rounds in my team. Two people solved it: myself, a young intern, who mapped out the constraints as a physical puzzle that I was able to solve visually, and a more seasoned colleague who used Prolog.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zebra_Puzzle




FYI, a very compact Prolog version of the Zebra/Einstein puzzle can be loaded into the editor for execution using "Load example" on [1].

[1]: https://quantumprolog.sgml.net/browser-demo/browser-demo.htm...




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