🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <653@fudd.dataco.UUCP> campbell@calvin.UUCP (Duncan Campbell, VOR) writes:
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>Well, Ted, out here in the real world _REAL_ Prolog isn't much use to
>anyone.  Indeed, if I were required to use a "pure" language, I simply
>would not bother with prolog at all: Scheme _IS_ a far superior language.

   And assembler is "better" than C. Scheme is a fine language, but
   it's a lower-level language than Prolog.

>By the way, is there some sort of "Academie Francais" of CS lingo out 
>there?  

   ISO and ANSI working groups who are developing a Prolog standard.

>The fact remains that PDCProlog provides much of the
>functionality of "pure" Prolog and possesess the features like
>timers, static typing and execution speed (*10 faster than "pure"
>prolog) needed for real-time applications.

   Which "pure" Prolog are you comparing it to?  Interpreted or
   compiled?  ALS Prolog is awfully fast!



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