lyda@acsu.buffalo.edu (louis k lyda) (05/02/90)
i'm reposting this as it seems to have bounced back... ----------------- thanks to all of you who told me about prolog interpreters for the ibm... but i'm curious, no responses came from the us and a great number of articles on comp.lang.prolog aren't from the us.... why? i'm just leaarning prolog and it is by far one of the most interesting languages i've learned. i'm also surprised that prolog isn't used as an introductory language, on a small level it seems quite simple and can model everyday things with ease.... somehow making a program that models "mary likes all animals except snakes." seems more interesting than making a program that reads your name and then says "hello, <name>." any good reasons for this besides being hung up on von-neuman architecture and unwillingness to change? kevin lyda@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu
bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards) (05/03/90)
>thanks to all of you who told me about prolog interpreters for the ibm... but >i'm curious, no responses came from the us and a great number of articles on >comp.lang.prolog aren't from the us.... why? > kevin lyda@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu Probably because the bulk of the AI community in the U.S. is convinced that Lisp is God's gift to mankind, and to use anything else is a sin. The rest of the world is somewhat more sensible.... I'd be interested in a summary of the responses you got. I'm currently looking at the LPA (Quintus) demo, and I except to get a copy of Arity tomorrow to look at. Turbo Prolog is ok for applications programming, but hopeless for any meta-programming. FWIW, the student price for the Arity interpreter is $200, while the student price for the LPA "incremental compiler" (read interpreter) is $381. The compilers are extra in each case. If anyone is interested, I'll post benchmarks for the two. I don't have enough info to evaluate the relative features of the two, as the PDA demo came with very limited information. --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Bradley L. Richards uucp: cs.utexas.edu!bradley bradley@cs.utexas.edu CompuServe: 75216,1744 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------