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[syn: Prolog, logic programing, logic programming]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Prolog \Pro"log\, n. & v.
Prologue.
[1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
PROLOG \PRO"LOG\ (pr[=o]"l[o^]g), n. (Computers)
A declarative higher-level programming language in which
instructions are written not as explicit procedural
data-manipulation commands, but as logical statements. The
language has built-in resolution procedures for logical
inference.
[PJC]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
higher programming language \higher programming language\ n.
(Computers)
A computer programming language with an instruction set
allowing one instruction to code for several assembly
language instructions.
Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language
instructions into one instruction allows much greater
efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs
are now written in some higher programming language,
such as BASIC, FORTRAN, COBOL, C, C++,
PROLOG, or JAVA.
[PJC]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
Prolog
n 1: a computer language designed in Europe to support natural
language processing [syn: Prolog, logic programing,
logic programming]
V.E.R.A. -- Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (February 2016):
PROLOG
PROgramming in LOGic
The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (30 December 2018):
Prolog
Programming in Logic or (French) Programmation
en Logique. The first of the huge family of logic
programming languages.
Prolog was invented by Alain Colmerauer and Phillipe Roussel
at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1971. It was first
implemented 1972 in ALGOL-W. It was designed originally for
natural-language processing but has become one of the most
widely used languages for artificial intelligence.
It is based on LUSH (or SLD) resolution theorem
proving and unification. The first versions had no
user-defined functions and no control structure other than the
built-in depth-first search with backtracking. Early
collaboration between Marseille and Robert Kowalski at
University of Edinburgh continued until about 1975.
Early implementations included C-Prolog, ESLPDPRO,
Frolic, LM-Prolog, Open Prolog, SB-Prolog, UPMAIL
Tricia Prolog. In 1998, the most common Prologs in use are
Quintus Prolog, SICSTUS Prolog, LPA Prolog, SWI
Prolog, AMZI Prolog, SNI Prolog.
ISO draft standard at Darmstadt, Germany
(ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/programming/languages/prolog/standard/).
or UGA, USA (ftp://ai.uga.edu/ai.prolog.standard).
See also negation by failure, Kamin's interpreters,
Paradigms of AI Programming, Aditi.
A Prolog interpreter in Scheme.
(ftp://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/prolog1.1).
A Prolog package
(ftp://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/prolog1.1/prolog11.tar.Z) from
the University of Calgary features delayed goals and
interval arithmetic. It requires Scheme with
continuations.
["Programming in Prolog", W.F. Clocksin & C.S. Mellish,
Springer, 1985].
(2001-04-01)