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by pjmlp 612 days ago
As someone that went through a degree where Prolog and LP was cherisched, I would say yes, however LP might be even weirder to start into than even FP.

Many folks on our degree couldn't be happier when they didn't had to see Prolog ever again, while me and others went on to take our chances on the national LP challenge across universities.

Tarski's World was a good way back then to dive into what LP is all about, without being programming language specific.

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Out of curiosity, in which university did you study for your degree?

I did my MSc in Sussex Uni which was one of the centers in the UK where logic programming was developed, but when I got there in 2014 there was no trace of that history. From conversations with professors and past students it seems that Sussex tried to ram Prolog hard down students' throats and that caused a furious backlash so that nobody wanted to hear about it anymore after the '90s to early 2000's.