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24 alternatives to The Poet of Logic Programming (Interview with Robert Kowalski)

An interview with Robert Kowalski, the co-creator of the field of logic programming and of the Prolog language.

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Poet of Logic Programming (Interview with Robert Kowalski) launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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   Writing an HTTP server in Prolog▲238

   2016 · jamesbvaughan.com · its alternatives →

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   A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3▲149

   A simple Prolog Interpreter written in a few lines of Python 3. It runs a limited subset of Prolog and uses backtracking and generators in order to perform its magic. - photonlines/Python-Prolog-Interpreter

   2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog▲108

   An encoding of the UK's self-isolation rules in Prolog - jamespwilliams/prolog-isolation-checker

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Embedding a Prolog-like logic programming language in JavasScript▲7

   Embedding a Prolog-like logic programming language in JavasScript and TypeScript. - xieyuheng/logic-db

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   Embeddable Prolog in Go▲14

   The only reasonable scripting engine for Go. Contribute to ichiban/prolog development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2021 · github.com · its alternatives →

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   The Pragmatic Programmer▲87

   Solid advice and awesome analogies

   2015 · amazon.com · its alternatives →

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   I wrote a technical history book on Lisp▲252

   The book page links to a blog post that explains how I got about it (and has a link to sample content), but the TL&DR is that I could not find a lot of books that were on "our" history _and_ were larded with technical details. So I set about writing one, and some five years later I'm happy to share the result. I think it's one of the few "computer history" books that has tons of code, but correct me if I'm wrong (I wrote this both to tell a story and to learn :-)). My favorite languages are Smalltalk and Lisp, but as an Emacs user, I've been using the latter for much longer and for my…

   Feb 2026 · berksoft.ca · its alternatives →

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   I'm writing a leanpub book about Common Lisp web programming▲107

   2013 · lispwebtales.ppenev.com · its alternatives →

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   I made a mobile-first Prolog editor▲13

   An ergonomic, mobile-first, Prolog playground! Contribute to lf94/paizo-programmer development by creating an account on GitHub.

   2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A Clojure implementation of logic programming language in SICP▲56

    A Clojure implementation of the logic programming language from chapter 4 of SICP - jdormit/sicp-logic

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's “On Lisp”▲93

    A modernized and annotated code companion to Paul Graham's "On Lisp". - DalekBaldwin/on-lisp

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Deep Learning for Program Synthesis▲93

    By Rishabh Singh, Jacob Devlin, Abdelrahman Mohamed, and Pushmeet Kohli, Microsoft Research Despite the many advances in computing over the past decades, the actual process of writing computer software has not fundamentally changed — a programmer must manually code the exact algorithmic logic of a p

    2017 · microsoft.com · its alternatives →

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    Podcast.__init__ Episode 46 - Functional Python with Alexander Schepanovsky and Matthew Rocklin▲51

    Functional programming in Python

    2016 · pythonpodcast.com · its alternatives →

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    “Crafting Interpreters” chapter, control flow and Turing-completeness▲116

    2017 · craftinginterpreters.com · its alternatives →

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    “Statements and State”, the next chapter of my book on interpreters▲141

    2017 · craftinginterpreters.com · its alternatives →

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    An Elementary Introduction to the Wolfram Language▲60

    Stephen Wolfram's new book on the Wolfram Language

    2015 · wolfram.com · its alternatives →

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    My "weekend" project, an ML dialect and compiler▲68

    2012 · texodus.github.com · its alternatives →

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    Prolog compiler and interpreter in pure JavaScript▲15

    Prolog Interpreter in Javascript

    2015 · prolog.jldupont.com · its alternatives →

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    Maybe Haskell▲60

    See what it’s like to program in a language without null.

    2015 · books.thoughtbot.com · its alternatives →

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    The Changelog - #181: RethinkDB, Databases, and the Realtime Web With Slava Akhmechet▲60

    Slava Akhmechet schools us on RethinkDB and the realtime web

    2015 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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    Vibe Prolog▲44

    Like a lot of people I got the $250 Claude Code credit and didn't use it up. I decided to try to use it up over the weekend using (mostly) my phone and vibe coded a Prolog interpreter. Now I'm seeing how far I can push it.

    Nov 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Allen NLP▲72

    An open-source NLP research library, built on PyTorch

    2017 · allenai.org · its alternatives →

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    I made a programming language with Spotify playlists▲33

    just a wack systems dude tbh

    2018 · h313.info · its alternatives →

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    The Changelog #201 – SQLite with Richard Hipp▲54

    This week we talked with Richard Hipp, the creator of SQLite

    2016 · changelog.com · its alternatives →

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