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		vezzy-fnord on June 23, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: The Unix Philosophy and Elixir as an Alternative t... Erlang vaguely looks like Prolog, but it has semantically nothing in common with it. Even the syntax is quite different beyond base similarities to predicates.

pjmlp on June 23, 2015 [–]

I know, but if one has Prolog on his/her toolbox, Erlang becomes more approachable than knowing only Algol style languages.

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