Things get very messy when you move away from mathematically founded theories like probability. What does it mean to say that you are 70% sure of something? Can you create a theory of the credible ...

Logic isn't the most exciting of subjects and you might think that it had its day with the Greeks, but you would be wrong. Logic isn't just part of programming, it can be all of it! If your computer ...

In recent columns, I’ve praised the low-level pleasures of assembly language and C. My argument is that, even if you never use these languages professionally, it’s important to broaden your mind and ...

Picat is a new logic-based programming language. In many ways, Picat is similar to Prolog, especially B-Prolog, but it has functions in addition to predicates, pattern-matching instead of unification ...

I found this prolog program to solve the five houses puzzle (Einestine's puzzle) on the net. Given that I don't know Prolog bsides that it's a predicative language, I started to learn it last night.