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From: "H.J. Sander Bruggink" <sander.bruggink@uni-due.de>
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Subject: Re: Call by Result
Date: Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:09:42 +0200
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On 06/16/2011 01:03 PM, Andreas Leitgeb wrote:
> Michael Wojcik<mwojcik@newsguy.com>  wrote:
>> In the Verona of functional languages, the ML family are the Montagues
>> to the LISP family's Capulets. Or something like that.
>
> :-)
>
> And to which of these two families is Prolog more related to?
> It does make lot of use of expression-matching like the MLs,
> but seems to be quite different, still.  A distant cousin?
>

Prolog is not a functional language but a logical language and does not 
use matching but unification.

But all programming languages influence each other, so probably all 
programming languages are distant cousins of all other ones :-).

groente
-- Sander