ActionScript as a teaching language

[Peter]

On Wed, 4 Jan 2006, Lennart Sorensen wrote:

> On Sat, Dec 31, 2005 at 03:42:17PM +0200, Peter wrote:
>> SWI Prolog + parser/lexer library + Tk bindings ?
>
> Prolog is too darn painful to do many types of problems in.  It is
> however really neat for certain types of problems.  I would have never
> though of doing graphics with it.

I do not understand why Prolog is considered 'painful'. I am no Prolog 
expert but so far it works fine whenever I need to use it. All the 
structured programming constructs can be simulated in Prolog but almost 
nothing that Prolog can do can be duplicated (easily) with something 
else.

Peter
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