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tluyben2
Bloom, Boom, Bud, Overlog, Dedalus. Lot of new things here (for me at least).

But (not flaming, just asking) why Ruby? Is that a good choice for this project, or is it just research anyway so it doesn't matter?

mr_eel
My interpretation is that they have chosen Ruby explicitly in order to validate the general approach and to make understanding it tractable to the average practitioner i.e. a programmer doesn't have to learn a new language to learn a new paradigm.
tluyben2
I must have a mental issue as I get happy when I see prolog/datalog derivatives and unhappy when I see ruby-like stuff. I might be very lonely in that regard :)