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The Simplicity of Prolog

simplicity of Prolog Nowadays the most popular programming languages are Python, Javascript, Java, C++, C#, Kotlin and Ruby, and the average programmer is probably familiar with one or more of these languages. It's relatively easy to switch from one to another (barring any framework specific knowledge that may be needed), since they are all imperative (and for the most part object-oriented) languages, and are thus alike in their design.

Secondly, the computational model maps nicely to hardware, and so instructions from imperative languages can often easily be translated to machine code that can be optimized quite a lot. Additionally, try to come up with how you would even begin to implement such functionality (testing, completing, and generating palindromes) in a language you are already familiar with - it would probably take a lot more work! Making the same change in our Prolog system turns out to be much simpler: since there is no separate logic for the different ways in which the predicate can be queried, there are less places that need to be refactored, just one, in fact.

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