Re: Marelle: prolog for devops

Thanks Anne!

Prolog feels very natural for this kind of sysadmin tasks and their
dependencies. The only thing that's weird for me still is namespacing. I'd
like to provide more builtins, but since what I write there will share a
namespace with Marelle's users, I'm reluctant to pollute it too much.

For example, in Babushka, the builtin targets are prefixed with 'core',
ones from your home directory 'personal', and ones from your current
directory 'local'. It's nice to be able to distinguish between them this
way.

Any suggestions in that direction would be most welcome :)


On 8 November 2013 09:41, Anne Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote:

> Marelle looks cool!
>
> After the strange loop workshop somebody asked me what people usually used
> for a 'build tool' with SWI-Prolog.
>
> I had to grin as I pointed out that ant, maven, etc essentially are
> forward chaining rule systems, and that a fc rule
> system was pretty short in Prolog. Not to mention that it's compile on
> load.
>
> 8cD
>
>
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