bill/wilandra wrote:
Hmmm, a basic tenet of Prolog is that the rules do not have any side
effects. That is why Prolog can back track like it does. In a build process
there are many side effects in creating, modifying, and copying/moving
files. These side effects could become impossible to restore to their
original states.
aah, but you forget about transacte file systems :)
actually, in big prolog projects you tend to make big use of the !
statement, because you dont want backtracking. One typo and your app
branches off into the undergrowth.
Anyway, I was not arguing in favour of prolog as a build system for java
apps. I was trying to note that languages like prolog (sometimes) are
better for bits of your app, like anything working with a graph of
complex content. Like XML, RDF or other structured text data coming in
over the wire.
I think you can run JLog as a script under ant, BTW.
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