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by MockObject 1015 days ago
> Prolog is often used in things that are kept very secret.

As in national security secrecy?

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No, that's not what I meant. I just mean people not telling other people. For example:

Pyrosequencing AB: SICS developed a dispensation order generation algorithm for Pyrosequencing's sequence analysis instruments, using constraint programming with SICStus. The algorithm can be described as a compiler, which calculates an instruction sequence based on an input specification. Applications include genetics, drug discovery, microbiology, SNP and mutation analysis, forensic identification using mtDNA, pharmacogenomics, and bacterial and viral typing.

That's a public example from the SICStus website, but you could see why the example above could have remained a secret and their Prolog used along with it. SICStus attracts such cases.