Re: Loderunner Enemy AI better than SWI-Prolog? [Prolog Education Group]

From	Anthk GM <anthk@disroot.org>
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Subject	Re: Loderunner Enemy AI better than SWI-Prolog? [Prolog Education Group]
Date	2026-09-15 17:10 +0000
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On 2026-08-19, Johann 'Myrkraverk' Oskarsson <johann@myrkraverk.invalid> wrote:
> On 19/08/2026 6:49 AM, Lawrence D’Oliveiro wrote:
>> On Tue, 18 Aug 2026 21:13:10 +0100, Aidan Kehoe wrote:
>> 
>>> I coded Prolog in 1998-1999. It is not oriented to the underlying
>>> machine in any useful way, and its syntax is not human-friendly. I
>>> don’t recommend it.
>> 
>> I did briefly flirt with it, a decade earlier. I found it “very high
>> level”, in that its brute-force pattern-matching-plus-backtracking
>> execution paradigm was well-suited to solving certain kinds of logic
>> problems (it’s in the name of the language after all). Though I guess
>> you’d get a blowup in execution time and memory in more complex
>> real-world situations.
>> 
>> You know the old “Who Owns The Zebra?” logic puzzle (or some variant
>> thereof)? You basically code the given clues directly into Prolog, run
>> the result as a program, and out pops the answer.
>
> Dear Lawrence,
>
> Have you thought to code yourself as a logical puzzle solving character
> in text adventures, with or without the help of Prolog?
>
> Do you think you can do so without ever mentioning Python?  Or do you
> love snakes so much you cannot live without it?  Are you perhaps a
> graduate of the Slitherin magical university?
>
> I have added rec.arts.int-fiction to this discussion, and alt.fantasy,
> even though we don't discuss Slitherins there.
>
>
> Happy coding yourself in a text adventure game!

There's a clause based language called Dialog which is 
Prolog's cousing (think something like CLIPS, constraint based 
solvers):

It targets the Z-Machine, like Inform6:
https://linusakesson.net/dialog/

Intro
https://dialog-if.github.io/manual/dialog/0m03/intro.html

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                Re: Loderunner Enemy AI better than SWI-Prolog? [Prolog Education Group] Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> - 2026-08-18 21:13 +0100
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