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by ninjamayo 3125 days ago
I haven't encountered anything across answer set programming in the large as you put it. It is still pretty academic and mainly used for solving puzzle and optimization problems.
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And yet declaring all business logic was once the way that all decisions would be encoded!
Looking at this from a more general perspective of the Symbolic AI approach I would say it had its days. Data driven systems are proving to be a lot more powerful and easy to build. I remember I used to spend ages trying to encode my problems in AnswerSet or AgentSpeak and come up with all the rules. It never worked!