On Thu, 4 Oct 2001, Michael G Schwern wrote: > > Backtracking is at the heart of Logic Programming (or Declarative > > Programming, if you like). This is one of the 3 main programming paradigms > > (along with procedural and functional). The most popular Declarative > > language is Prolog. It is great for writing programs that are largely about > > resource allocation and constraints. There's some links to start you off > > here: > > > > http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?backtracking > > Sounds like a chess computer.
It kind of struck me that this type of concept might be handy for writing parsers directly in Perl without an 'intermediate' parsing language. Or for making it easier to write such an intermediate language. - D <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
