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Re: Demons in Prolog

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From: fore057
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 1990 03:33
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In article <4716@mahendo.Jpl.Nasa.Gov>, alan@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (Alan Quan) writes:
> I need to find out if it's possible to implement demons in Prolog in an
> efficient manner.  These can be simple triggers which respond to
> pre-specified situations in the input data and then initiate a standard
> backward-chained Prolog inference (I'm also interested in efficient
> Prolog forward chaining in general, but this is not essential).
> 
> I'd like to use such a technique for a real-time application so it has
> to be relatively fast--- any comments you can provide on suitability of
> Prolog for real-time environments (Prolog alone or Prolog in conjuction
> with C) will be of considerable interest. 

Try PDC Prolog V3.2.  It's set up to handle pipes for OS/2, and, although it
violates some traditional Prolog conventions, it is fast, and would suit
real-time applications.

Regards,
Euan

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Subject: Re: Demons in Prolog
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