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    From Mild Shock@21:1/5 to Mild Shock on Mon May 27 20:01:15 2024
    Time to dig out Colmerauers/Russells original Prolog
    implementation in FORTRAN from the 1970's?

    The first interpreter was written in Algol-W (1972),
    with later interpreters written in FORTRAN (1973)! and
    Pascal (1976). Though the Marseilles group and the
    Edinburgh group collaborated until the mid-1970's,
    they subequently went their own ways, leading to the
    development of two families of Prolog dialects, each
    with its own syntax. The Mareseilles dialect has
    become largely extinct, though. https://www.cs.gordon.edu/courses/cs323/PROLOG/prolog.html

    Mild Shock schrieb:
    Especially since good old FORTRAN has
    made a new appearance:

    TIOBE Index for May 2024
    I have received a lot of questions why Fortran entered the top 10
    again after more than 20 years. The TIOBE index just publishes
    what has been measured.
    https://www.tiobe.com/tiobe-index/

    Why Fortran is back in TIOBE’s top 10
    First, Fortran is especially good at numerical analysis and
    computational mathematics. Numerical and mathematical
    computing is growing because interest in artificial intelligence
    is growing, Jansen told TechRepublic in an email. https://www.techrepublic.com/article/tiobe-index-may-2024/

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