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by iamwil 594 days ago
Simon Peyton Jones (of Haskell) is working on Verse, a functional relational programming language, that merges the ideas of both functional and logical programming into one.

It’s being done to facilitate Fortnite metaverse, as he’s doing this work at Epic.

https://youtu.be/OJv8rFap0Nw?si=OmBT9CBJIxdJE1Jv

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Functional logic programming much before Verse https://mercurylang.org/
Which interestingly enough is used to make PrinceXML [1] one of the only "browsers" to fully support CSS print media.

1. https://www.princexml.com