Re: "Embedded Prolog" in C code

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From: Michael A. Covington
Date: Fri, 31 May 1991 23:36

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In article <GARYM.91May30115448@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net> garym@cognos.uucp@uunet.uu.net (Gary Murphy) writes:
>
>Oh, let's not start THIS again. One could argue that NONE of the current
>implementations are 'prolog', but the truth is that PDC is more a prolog
>than anything else and is as much a prolog as TurboPascal is a pascal.
>

Falsch. Turbo Pascal _is_ Pascal; virtually all ISO Pascal programs run
unchanged. Turbo Prolog is _not_ Prolog; there is NO, I repeat _no_
Edinburgh Prolog program that will run unchanged in Turbo Prolog.

The real problem with Turbo Prolog is not what it leaves out, but with what
it adds. All kinds of obligatory type declarations, and restrictions on the
use of data types, are added. This is why no Edinburgh Prolog program will
run unchanged, and most of them cannot even be converted without a total
redesign of the data structures.

I'm not saying Turbo Prolog isn't a good language. But it isn't Prolog.
It's another Prolog-like language, just as Pascal is another Algol-like
language.                                   
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Michael A. Covington | Artificial Intelligence Programs
The University of Georgia  |  Athens, GA 30602   U.S.A.
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Subject: Re: "Embedded Prolog" in C code
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