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205 points rramadass | 1 comments | 12 Nov 25 14:54 UTC | HN request time: 0.204s | source
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ecshafer ◴[12 Nov 25 17:03 UTC] No.45902617[source]▶
I really enjoyed learning Prolog in university, but it is a weird language. I think that 98% of tasks I would not want to use Prolog for, but for that remaining 2% of tasks it's extremely well suited for. I have always wished that I could easily call Prolog easily from other languages when it suited the use case, however good luck getting most companies to allow writing some code in Prolog.
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1. ashton314 ◴[12 Nov 25 17:48 UTC] No.45903229[source]▶
Racket really shines in this regard: Racket makes it easy to build little DSLs, but they all play perfectly together because the underlying data model is the same. Example from the Racket home page: https://racket-lang.org/#any-syntax

You can have a module written in the `#racket` language (i.e., regular Racket) and then a separate module written in `#datalog` and the two can talk to each other!