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		nickpsecurity on May 29, 2017 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Ask HN: Why isn't Prolog more popular? Look into Mercury language for a take on something that might be more acceptable by mixing logical and functional: https://www.mercurylang.org/about.html

vram22 on May 29, 2017 | [–]

Prince XML, a software tool to generate PDF from HTML and CSS, is written in Mercury.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_(software)

From above page:

>Prince was developed using the Mercury functional logic programming language.

kensai on May 29, 2017 | [–]

I like Curry better for mixing logical and functional.

http://www.curry-language.org

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