Google's New Logica Language
Sunday, April 18, 2021 at 06:50AM
Charlie in Digital Financial Reporting

Google has created a new open source languge called Logica that is a dialect of Datalog.  Recall that Datalog is a very safe dialect of Prolog.  Prolog (which is an ISO standard) is one of the three primary problem solving logic paradigms, logic programming. You can download Logica here on Github.

This InfoWorld article, Google's Logica language addresses SQL's flaws, says that "Logica solves problems of SQL by using syntax of mathematical logic rather than natural English language."

This SDTimes article, Google unveils logic programming language: Logica, “Logica brings readability and good engineering practices common for languages like Python, C++, Java etc. to your queries.”

This is excellent news! As I see it, Logica is a vote of confidence for modern PROLOG.

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