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Prolog: The Standard - Reference Manual (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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Prolog: The Standard - Reference Manual (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1996)
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From the viewpoint of an "industrial" this book is most welcome, as
one of the most significant demonstrations of the maturity of
Prolog. Logic programming is a fascinating area in computer
science, which held for years - and still does - the promise of
freeing ourselves from programming based on the "Von Neumann"
machine. In addition computer programming has long been for solid
theoretical foundations. While conventional engineering, dealing
mainly with "analogical complexity," developed over some hundred
years a complete body of mathematical tools, no such toolset was
available for "digital complexity." The only mathematical
discipline which deals with digital complexity is logic and Prolog
is certainly the operational tool which comes closest to the
logical programming ideal. So, why does Prolog, despite nearly
twenty years of development, still appear to many today to be more
of a research or academic tool, rather than an industrial
programming language? A few reasons may explain this: First, I
think Prolog suffers from having been largely assimilated into -
and thus followed the fate of - Artificial Intelligence. Much hype
in the late 1980 created overexpectations and failed to deliver,
and the counterreaction threw both AI and Prolog into relative
obscurity. In a way, maybe this is a new chance for the Prolog
community: the ability to carry out real work and progress without
the disturbance of limelights and the unrealistic claims of various
gurus. Second, programming in Prolog is a new experience for
computer professionals.
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