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> This is like trying to understand the nuance reasons why Steven Hawking disagrees with Einstein (or whoever) on something.

I like the analogy!

> So my guess is just trying to give a voice to the little guys who are up and coming and are in line philosophically with his beliefs about the language and open source.

That makes perfect sense. Thanks for answering! It's an interesting insight into the world of "Prologs" to a complete outsider. I had only used SWI-Prolog in the university and remember it having a variety of modules, web development libraries and other such things, so at least superficially to a novice, that was pretty impressive.