Prolog

We've been using Prolog in one of my classes this semester.  It's pretty neat!

So far, our assignments have been writing evaluators and a super-shitty compiler for Little Languages represented as Prolog lists -- essentially S-expressions.

It's amazing how much one can do with three or four lines of code!

Anyhow, what do you guys think of /b/rolog?

Clients pay you to solve their problems. They aren’t interested in how cool Prolog is, and they don’t want to pay you to learn new tools and languages. Expand your skills to stay competitive and don’t fall in love with languages du jour for their own sake.

If you have an exotic in-demand skill by all means use it. But if you decide to learn Lisp, think hard about how you will compete. Sure, there are lots of PHP programmers out there, but most of them are amateurs you can easily compete with, and there’s more than enough PHP work to go around. It’s much harder to compete with skilled and experienced experts for a small number of jobs. You want to do what everyone else is making money at, but better, so you’re playing basketball against a team of sixth graders, not trying to join the NBA.