I remember implementing an n-queens solver in Prolog for a programming languages course. Prolog does backtracking on its own. The style of programming is very different from anything else I've ever programmed in--it's a really interesting language. It doesn't get used much in production, but I've seen isolated instances where it has been. Initial implementations of Erlang were written in it, for example.
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