On 31/05/2012 02:20 PM, Francois Labreque wrote:

> Yeah, I know. Cool story bro.

The way I heard it, Prolog caused quite a stir when people first saw it 
back in the 1970s. A few simple lines of Prolog gives you a system with 
approximately the apparent logical deductive skills of a 2 year old 
child. And it's really quite a simple piece of programming. The computer 
scientists of the day must surely have thought that in just a few years' 
time, they would have human or super-human intelligence at their 
fingertips...

...and then it didn't actually happen like that, and the "AI winter" 
came along. The scientists promised everybody the Earth, and then 
couldn't deliver, so their funding was slashed.

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