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In article <10NOV199222091262@trentu.ca>, mbrown@trentu.ca (MARTIN A. BROWN) writes:

> 	Does anyone know of references or periodicals which describes 
> the specific circumstances responsible for the establishment of the Prolog 
> language.

You might be interested in the attached (I've left in only the
Prolog-relevant parts; the full original is in comp.lang.sigplan,
or it can be obtained from the publicity chair HOPL@CRL.DEC.COM;
the conference has some general talks plus specific talks on
the histories of Algol-68, Pascal, Concurrent Pascal, Ada, Lisp,
Prolog, FORMAC, CLU, Smalltalk, Icon, Forth, C, C++ and others).

>                The Second ACM SIGPLAN
>
>                HISTORY OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES CONFERENCE (HOPL-II)
>
>                Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
>                April 20-23, 1993
>
>
> General Chair: John A.N. Lee
> Program Chair: Jean E. Sammet
>
> THURSDAY, APRIL 22
> 8:30 - 10:30am  The Evolution of Lisp
>                     Guy L. Steele, Jr. (Thinking Machines Corporation)
>                     Richard P. Gabriel (Lucid, Inc.)
>
>                 The Birth of Prolog (invited paper)
>                     Alain Colmerauer (Faculte des Sciences de Luminy)
>                     Philippe Roussel (Elsa Software)
>
> FRIDAY, APRIL 23
> 11:00am - 1:00pm
>                 Programming Languages: Does our Present Past Have a Future?
>                 (panel session)
>                     Alain Colmerauer
>                     Alan C. Kay
>                     Dennis Ritchie
>                     William A. Whitaker
>                     N. Wirth
>
> PROCEEDINGS
>
> The HOPL-II papers will be distributed in preprint form at the conference
> and as an issue of ACM SIGPLAN Notices. It is expected that a full book will
> be published as the final conference proceedings; it will contain a
> substantial amount of material gathered from the conference in addition to
> the papers.

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	Peter Ludemann  +1-415-813-3800  ludemann@quintus.com