I was surprised to see nothing about Japan’s funneling of money into 5GL programming language research (having to do with AI and ... IIRC Prolog).

- https://www.informit.com/articles/article.aspx?p=1080343&seq...

- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth-generation_programming...

- https://groups.google.com/g/comp.lang.lisp/c/IVH_UqOGsew

I took a programming languages class with a cool professor that spent some time discussing the history with us.