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I loved Turbo Prolog.

Creating many cool things: graphical chess problem solver, watching the search process on a VGA screen on a 386 CPU, expert systems, logic analyzers.

But it's been a long time. C became my next new love (Turbo C first), and many years later a plethora of OO languages.

But Prolog still holds a special place. Too bad it really didn't catch on in my professional career.

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Should be noted that Turbo Prolog is/was kind of a special thing on its own - unlike "regular" Prolog, TP is statically typed and has a more "rigid" form with its explicit "domains" (basically type declarations), "predicates", "clauses", etc sections. It isn't a huge difference in practice (and you can declare multiple versions of predicates - sort of like overloaded functions) aside from having to declare upfront of what you intend to do, but writing Turbo Prolog's dialect does feel quite different from other dialects.

AFAIK nowadays the compiler is still being developed as Visual Prolog.

I had no idea Visual Prolog existed! Thanks for that mention.

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