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It might partially have been inspired by Prolog, in fact. But it lacks backtracking and unification so I don't think it qualifies as an embedded Prolog system. Erlang allows so-called non-linear patterns (ie using the same variable for several argument positions, implying equality), which comes slightly closer to Prolog (and of course, Erlang was originally modeled on Prolog, but the apple ended up far from the tree).


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