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We did Prolog in university - actually it was one of the two languages we had to learn in CS, the other one being Pascal.
I always considered Prolog a pain in the ass and unsuitable for anything bigger than a piece of homework due to the "we don't do loops, we have tail recursion" making the code unnecessary complex and hard to read. On a list of Write-Only languages I'd rate it a few steps below Perl.
Tail recursion is just fancy way to loop.
There's a few things it's very good at, but anything outside of that tends to be painful.
I also used Pascal and Prolog in university, in my first year. That was... 15 years ago now. Wow.
I'm using Prolog in university right now. And Scala :(