winfwrd@dutrun.UUCP (Paul van der Weerd) (03/28/89)
Digitalk enclosed a Prolog interpreter with their Smalltalk/V package for the IBM-PC. Since I'm not an experienced Prolog user, I would like to hear some opinions about this particular Prolog implementation. Some months ago we left Smalltalk/V and started with the Smalltalk-80 environment on Macintosh II and Sun-3 (mainly because of source-code exchangeability) and right now we are considering converting Prolog-St/V to Prolog-St-80 (or has anyone done this already?). Perhaps we are on the wrong track of importing logic programming into Smalltalk and better tools might be available. Any suggestions are welcome. Paul van der Weerd Delft University of Technology Julianalaan 132 2628 BL Delft tel. +31 15 782523 fax. +31 15 786522
zdhm06@satchmo.uucp (Donald H. Mitchell) (04/01/89)
In article <675@dutrun.UUCP> winfwrd@dutrun.UUCP (Paul van der Weerd) writes: > >Digitalk enclosed a Prolog interpreter with their Smalltalk/V package for the >IBM-PC. Since I'm not an experienced Prolog user, I would like to hear some >opinions about this particular Prolog implementation. If you just want to play around and learn alittle, it may be ok; however, its syntax is non-standard, it does not support even all of Clocksin and Mellish (C&M) let alone the standard extensions (bag_of, set_of, member, ...), and it is VERY slow and memory intensive. >... right now we are considering converting Prolog-St/V to >Prolog-St-80 (or has anyone done this already?). Hum, isn't that violation of copyright or intellectual property rights? >Paul van der Weerd >Delft University of Technology Don Mitchell apctrc!dmitchell Amoco Production Company (918) 660-4270 Tulsa Research Center P.O. Box 3385