miniKanren - Dan Friedman and William Byrd on HackerTube: recommended by 2 Hacker News commenters across 2 separate months, 2013–2018.
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Dan Friedman and William Byrd demonstrate miniKanren, a logic programming system for Scheme, in an unconference talk. It includes generating programs by running relations in reverse.
HN recommends it as a mind-blowing and fun introduction to logic programming for working programmers.
“I highly recommend watching Dan Friedman and William Byrd give their miniKanren conference talk”
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Fun! I highly recommend watching Dan Friedman and William Byrd give their miniKanren conference talk (they've done it a number of times slightly differently) e.g. this one at the "Conj" Clojure convention: ▶ this video It's really a fun presentation and does a great job introducing logic programming and miniKanren to lay programmers.
in “Reazon – miniKanren for Emacs” · View on HN
Here's a related talk on MiniKanren by Dan Freidman and Will Byrd: ▶ this video The bits about generating programs using MiniKanren was truly mind blowing.
in “Explorations in Clojure's core.logic” · View on HN
Beside dependent types, bidirectional (~relational) programming is the only thing that amaze me. Dan Friedman gave talks about [mini]kanren, see ▶ this video I couldn't find the one where he asks (eval exp '()) to be 6 and gets many results such as 6 ;; duh (let ((_ 5)) ((lambda (x) (+ x 1)) _)) ;; better Here's an example involving cons cells only [link]
in “Advanced programming languages (2009)” · View on HN