bts (12/02/82)
Here's the first part of an answer I got concerning Prolog for the
VAX. Needless to say, I've already written off for it.
Bruce Smith, UNC-CH
duke!unc!bts
bts.unc@udel-relay
Date: 1 Dec 1982 1157-PST
From: PEREIRA at SRI-AI
Subject: Re: Prolog for the VAX
To: bts.unc at UDEL-RELAY
cc: PEREIRA at SRI-AI
In-Reply-To: Your message of 30-Nov-82 0741-PST
Via: Sri-Ai; 1 Dec 82 15:10-EST
Via: UDel-Relay; 1 Dec 82 18:32-EDT
Status: RO
The information on how to get my Prolog for the VAX follows:
HOW TO GET CPROLOG
1 December 1982
CProlog is a Prolog interpreter written in C for VAXes. It will run both under
Unix and VMS. CProlog is almost entirely compatible with DEC-10 Prolog and also
very similar to the dialect of Prolog described in the book "Programming in
Prolog" by Bill Clocksin and Chris Mellish.
Copies of CProlog, for research and teaching only, can be obtained from
EdCAAD
Dept. of Architecture
University of Edinburgh
20 Chambers Street
Edinburgh EH1 1GZ
Scotland
At the moment, there is no mechanism to distribute CProlog for commercial
purposes. However, if you would like to use CProlog commercially, please write
to Aart Bijl at the address above giving details of your interest. This will
help to speed up the release of CProlog for commercial use.
Fernando Pereira
EK245
AI Center
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, California 94025
USA
Phone: (415)859-5494
ARPANET: PEREIRA@SRI-AI
-------bts (12/02/82)
Here's more information, on how to get Prolog and why you might want to. Thanks, once again, to Fernando Pereira, at SRI. Bruce Smith, UNC-CH duke!unc!bts bts.unc@udel-relay Date: 1 Dec 1982 1210-PST From: PEREIRA at SRI-AI Subject: Re: Prolog for the VAX To: bts.unc at UDEL-RELAY cc: PEREIRA at SRI-AI In-Reply-To: Your message of 30-Nov-82 0741-PST Via: Sri-Ai; 1 Dec 82 15:20-EST Via: UDel-Relay; 1 Dec 82 18:33-EDT Status: RO Info on Prolog systems for Unix: Why should I want Prolog? ========================= Prolog is a simple but powerful programming language for symbolic computation based on a computationally treatable subset of logic. It can be seen as a clean combination of the concepts of symbolic programming languages such as Lisp and those of relational databases. Prolog was born at the University of Marseille in the early 70's. After 8 years of comparative obscurity in a small community of dedicated implementers and users, Prolog has been brought to the attention of the wider world by its surprising adoption as the starting point for the Japanese 5th generation computer research effort. Prolog has been used for (order of items doesn't imply any form of ranking): - natural language interaction with computer systems - architectural design - drug design (very successful commercial application in Hungary) - VLSI circuit analysis - artificial intelligence research - compiler writing (Prolog itself, APL) - algebraic computation - database access and data description languages - discrete event simulation - program development systems - expert systems and certainly more that I can't remember or don't know about. I have a Unix system; how do I get Prolog? ========================================== Please note that Prolog, like other interactive symbolic languages requires more space to run than lower-level languages. Don't expect miracles on a PDP-11. For the PDP-11 UNIX V6 or V7: - Chris Mellish's system, obtainable from Dept. of Artificial Intelligence University of Edinburgh Forrest Hill Edinburgh Scotland - Very compact and reasonably fast, will run substantial programs even without separate I/D space. - As far as I know, its development has been frozen. - Writen in PDP-11 assembly code. For the VAX UNIX 4.1 BSD or Eunice under VMS: - CProlog, obtainable from EdCAAD Dept. of Architecture University of Edinburgh 20 Chambers St. Edinburgh EH1 1GZ Scotland - Designed for machines with 32 bit addresses; requires at least 750K of virtual memory to run comfortably. - it has an extensive set of system predicates. - still being developed and improved: if you get the initial license from EdCAAD, you may ask me for bug fixes and improvements. - Written in C and Prolog. Forthcoming: For the VAX and Z8000: - POPLOG, combined POP-11 and Prolog from the University of Sussex (available now only for VMS). - Reported to be somewhat faster than CProlog. - Written in POP-11 and VAX assembly code. For 68000: - EdCAAD's CProlog is being ported. All these systems comply broadly with the syntax and reportoire of system predicates described in "Programming in Prolog" by Bill Clocksin and Chris Mellish, Springer Verlag 1981. This is the book to get if you want to get into Prolog. Others: There are several other more or less portable Prolog systems written in C or Pascal, but they are rather experimental and I cannot recommend them for general use. If you have information about other Prolog systems, want to know more about Prolog or have bug reports on CProlog, write to: Fernando Pereira Artificial Intelligence Center SRI International 333 Ravenswood Ave. Menlo Park, California 94025 USA Phone: (415)859-5494 ARPANET: PEREIRA@SRI-AI *** Stop Press: Another Prolog in C, for VAXes, PDP-11s, 8086s, etc... UNSW Prolog, obtainable from Claude Sammut Dept. of Math and Computer Science Saint Joseph's University 5600 City Avenue Philadelphia PA 19131 Fernando -------