Yeah I’m a huge proponent of this general philosophy, but after being introduced to prolog itself for a third of a semester back in undergrad I decided to stay far, far away. The vision never quite came through as clearly as it did for the other wacky languages, namely the functional family (Lisp and Haskell in my case). I believe you on the fundamental termination issues, but just basic phrasing seemed unnecessarily convoluted…
Since you seem like an expert: is there a better technology for logical/constraint programming? I loved predicate calculus in school so it seems like there should be something out there for me, but so far no dice. This seems kinda related to the widely-discussed paradigm of “Linear Programming”, but I’ve also failed to find much of interest there behind all the talk of “Management Theory” and detailed mathematical efficiency comparisons.
I guess Curry (from above) might be the go-to these days?