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From: conway@mundil.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Thomas Charles CONWAY)
Subject: Re: speed of prolog
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fjh@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fergus Henderson) writes:

>If there are any tasks where Prolog can out-perform C or C++,
>they are *very* few and far between.  I challenge anyone to
>produce such a Prolog program.  I am very confident that I
>could write a C/C++ program with equal or better performance.

Sure, but in equal or better programming time?

Thomas
