In the previous post, I talked about how Python and Prolog are closer than one might think at a first glance. They are so close, that even both programming languages can be used from the same program.
Some days ago, I found Pyrolog, the Prolog interpreter that comes with the PyPy distribution. It is a Prolog [...]
During the last four or five years I have programmed almost exclusively in Python, a well known object-oriented programming language, very popular in the free / open source software community. In the last months, I have had to program in Prolog, a logic programming language, because of the research topics I am currently working on.
At [...]
I have just read a post entitled “Multitask poisoning” about how to organize yourself to do research. The main argument is that interruptions kill your productivity because of the overhead time that you need to reach the concentration point necessary for research activities.
Actually, I think that for most of the work I do, this overhead [...]