Prolog - Re: An even more basic question...

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Re: An even more basic question...

A.L.

2007-11-19, 10:10 pm

On Mon, 19 Nov 2007 17:18:28 -0800, student <no-spam@nowhere.net>
wrote:

>
> At issue is not whether Prolog can make deterministic
>stepwise-imperative computers jump though complicated hoops as quickly
>as deterministic stepwise-imperative notations such as "C" can, but
>whether it actually makes sense to use anything less than a fully
>executable logic-based declarative language such as Prolog to express
>the specifications of complicated problems when those specifications
>will themselves have to be repeatedly revised in the face of sudden and
>unpredictable changes in the respective underlying realities -- and
>especially when decisions based on outmoded specifications will carry
>serious risk of injury and loss of life.

Could you translate the above into plain English?...

A.L.

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