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		aeneasmackenzie on Jan 18, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tar.pl – A tar creator and extractor in ~130 lines... You can file seek in any language, but not in most file format DSLs (or this one, because it's local). The author mentions QuickBMS and thus is aware of this, but most academic format languages don't support it.

TheRealPomax on Jan 20, 2023 [–]

Except we're talking about Prolog, so we're talking about SWI-Prolog, the insanely academic flavour of this programming language.

It's basically the flavour of Prolog that won the popularity contest exactly because of its academic sponsorship (by the University of Amsterdam).

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