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I've noticed quite a lot of Prolog content lately. I don't know if it's just a case of the Baader–Meinhof phenomenon, but it looks to me that recent article[1] about Prolog being able to improve LLM reasoning abilities renewed some interest in the language.

[1] https://shchegrikovich.substack.com/p/use-prolog-to-improve-...


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worldsayshi11/07/2024

Here's the hacker news post: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41831735

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weinzierl11/07/2024

Which is strange considering how old and limited Prolog in a sense is. I wonder why no superset ever gained traction and what it would look like. I imagine it fitting somewhere in the hierarchy

Theorem Prover ⊃ SMT Solver ⊃ SAT Solver

since

Theorem Prover ⊃ Prolog

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