kentb@uo-vax1.UUCP (01/21/84)
#R:sri-arpa:-1340300:uo-vax1:3800001:37777777600:708 uo-vax1!kentb Nov 9 10:17:00 1983 Although I agree with many of your points personally, your note has the flavor of the arguments in the early 70's that programming without GOTO's was essentially impossible, and that all this stuff about structured programming was going to fade into the distance because of its inherent impracticality. I see the need not for a change in PROLOG, but in the way we program, the way we think about programming. Then perhaps our conception of programs as being primarily concerned with operations over time will change. Let's not force our old ways of thinking onto new programming languages (witness goto's in PASCAL), but rather try to adapt our thinking to this new --dare I say it-- paradigm. Kent Beck