bts@unc.cs.unc.edu (Bruce Smith) (08/25/87)
Here's an old copy of the List-of-Prologs, from last Spring. I have
received updates from several people already, but I am waiting until
mid-September (after SLP) to post the new list.
Please send info on new Prolog (or other logic programming)
systems, as well as updates to old ones, to me at UNC-CH, either by
email or hardcopy. If you will be at SLP, Peter Reintjes from MCNC
has volunteered to bring back whatever info people give him at the
symposium.
As always, I'm interested in all logic programming systems,
from the "send a tape and $20" up to the expensive commercial stuff.
However, most readers of these newsgroups/lists are in academia, so
please let us know if you give discounts. And, don't be ashamed to
tell us about experimental systems you're working on.
_____________________________________________________________________
Bruce T. Smith Dept. of Computer Science
USENET: bts@unc Sitterson Hall
Others: bts@unc.cs.unc.edu Chapel Hill, NC 27514
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NAME: A.D.A. Prolog
VERSION: First release, dated 1985
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C/ MSDOS and PCDOS systems
FEATURES: Incremental compiler, VML virtual memory system and
extensions invisible to user, datebase access routines,
debugging, stream input, list-based structure sharing,
UNIX style modules, incremental garbage collection,
Edinburgh-compatible syntax.
AVAILABILITY: Full version from May 1985; five versions of increasing
complexity available separately; educational and
commercial licenses.
COST: prices range from $29 to $500, depending on capability.
CONTACT: Automata Design Associates
1570 Arran Way
Dresker, PA 19025
(215) 335-5400
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: Arity/Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: IBM-PC and compatibles, the compiler is written in
Arity/Prolog
FEATURES: interpreter and compiler, with debugger; "string
support", interface to other programming languages,
UNIX-style file I/O and systems functions, text screen
management; definite clause grammar support; "more
comprehensive" set of primitives
COST: $1950 compiler and interpreter, $495 interpreter only
CONTACT: Arity Corporation
358 Baker Avenue
Concord, MA 01742
(617) 371-1243
DATED: August 1985
NOTES: Arity/Prolog compiler compiles itself in less than
one and 1/4 minutes on an AT
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NAME: Basser Prolog
VERSION: 3
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C/Unix (V7, 4.?BSD & others) also VMS
FEATURES: fast Interpreter, full interface to Unix, Dec-10
Debugging facilities, real arithmetic, backtrackable
I/O, good documentation (user manual & tutorial)
AVAILABILITY: Educational license, source or binary
COST: A$300 or US$300 or negotiable, VMS version extra
STATUS: running, some development & support
LOCATION: Academic and commercial sites, in Singapore and
France, as well as several in Australia.
CONTACT: Andrew Taylor (USENET: mulga!basser!andrewt)
Department of Computer Science
Sydney University
Sydney, N.S.W. 2006
Australia
DATED: May 1984
NOTES: Yet another prolog syntax. Most of the code is clean
and readable. Generally similar to DEC-10 prolog.
Basser Prolog has sufficient "features" to make it
a reasonable programming environment and a useful tool.
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NAME: BIM-Prolog
VERSION: 0.4, dated February 1985
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C, VAX/VMS; 4.2bsd UNIX (VAX and SUN)
FEATURES: Interpreter based on translated abstract machine code;
intelligent debugging system; partial evaluation system;
data flow checking; integration with a relational database;
real-time garbage collection; compiler to assembler being
developed.
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial
COST: 350 ECU for academic license, 5000 ECU for run-time system,
10000 ECU for full programming environment.
STATUS: Preliminary version available, new programming environment
will be available in summer 1985.
CONTACT: Raf Venken
Belgian Institute of Management
Kwikstraat 4
B-3047, Belgium
(02) 759-5925
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: C-Prolog
VERSION: 1.5
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C/UNIX 4.1/2 BSD, C/VMS
FEATURES: Interpreter, Prolog-10 compatibility, four port debugger
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial licenses
COST: 100 pounds, academic
updates (if you have earlier version) 50 pounds
LOCATION: Many universities and research organizations in US, UK,
and Europe
CONTACT: Department of Architecture
Edinburgh Univeristy
Forest Hill Rd.
Edinburgh EH1 1GZ
U.K.
(or decvax!mcvax!ukc!edcaad!margaret)
or, in the U.S.
SRI International
333 Ravenswood Ave.
Menlo Park, CA 94025
DATED: July 1984
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NAME: Horne
VERSION: 5.0
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Franz Lisp
FEATURES: LISP interface; tracing and debugging; typed theorem
proving; automated reasoning facilities include forward
chaining, constraint posting.
AVAILABILITY: anyone
COST: send a tape
CONTACT: James Allen (USENET: rochester!james)
Computer Science Dept.
University of Rochester
Rochester, NY 14627
DATED: Sept 1984
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NAME: IC Prolog
VERSION: 0.7 (1979)
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Pascal
FEATURES: Uses program annotations, data flow coroutining,
collectors; special features for control and data
handling for datebase aplications; extended handling
of negation; pseudo-parallelism annotations enable
time-sharing processes on a sequential machine.
AVAILABILITY: no longer supported
CONTACT: F.G. McCabe
Department of Computing
Imperial College
London SW7 2BU
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: ICL Prolog
VERSION: First release dated 1984
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Pascal / VME on ICL 2900 to intermediate code
FEATURES: Compiler; lexical modules for construction of large
applications; incremental garbage collection, tail
recursion optimization, early detection of determinacy,
clause indexing, trace and debugging facilities; large
address space, interface to other languages.
AVAILABILITY: Commercial license.
COST: Complete package priced at 400 pounds per quarter,
including functional LISP.
LOCATION: Approximately 12 users, various applications.
CONTACT: J. W. Doores
International Computers Ltd.
Wenlock Way, West Gorton
Manchester M12 5DR
Tel: 061-223 1301
DATED: June 1985
NOTES: Improved version to be released soon written in 'C'
and Prolog, for UNIX on Orion and PERQ PNX systems.
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NAME: IF/Prolog
VERSION: 2.0 (dated Sept. 1984)
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C/Cadmus 9000/UNIX, VAX/UNIX, Perkin Elmer 3200,
IBM-PC, 68000 microcomputers
FEATURES: Interpreter; syntax checking facility, hashing mechanism,
tail recursion optimization, floating point arithmetic;
window management, screen-oriented debugging; C language
interface.
COST: From 9000F to 12000F, or $550 to $3200
LOCATION: Approx. 100 systems at research and industrial sites.
CONTACT: Interface Computer Gmbh.
Oberfohringerstr 24a+b
D-8000 Munich 81
Germany
or
Stewart Hughes, Ltd.
Chilworth Manor
Southampton S09 1XB
DATED: June 1985
NOTES: Prolog compiler will be available in Autumn 1985, to
run on a wide range of machines.
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NAME: The Logic WorkBench
SRC/MACHINE/OS: various 68000 UNIX systems
FEATURES: Edinburgh syntax; compiler, interpreter, interactive
debugger, interface to C; Prolog interface to external
database; ability to store large Prolog databases on
disk and use then without downloading into main memory.
COST: $6,900
CONTACT: Silogic, Inc.
6420 Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90048
(213) 653-6470
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: LM-Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: ZetaLisp, LMI and Symbolics
FEATURES: interpreter, compiler which can unfold predicates,
microcode support, worlds, indexing, lazy and eager
collections, constraints; Concurrent Prolog
interpreter; backtracking Turtle graphics; interface
to Lisp; optional occur check, optional cyclic
structures, mutable arrays, full Lisp machine
environment; DEC-10 Prolog compatibility package.
AVAILABILITY: commercial and non-commercial licenses.
COST: $1500 non-commercial.
LOCATION: Sweden and USA
CONTACT: LMI
Suite 900
6033 West Century Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90045
or
Uppsala Programming Methodology and AI Laboratory
Department of Computing Science
PO Box 2059
S-750 02 Uppsala
Sweden
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: LOGLISP
VERSION: Version 3 (dated 1984)
SRC/MACHINE/OS: UCI Rutgers LISP/DEC 10; Zetalisp/LMI Lambda;
Symbolics 3600.
FEATURES: Interpreter incorporating breadth-first and heuristic
search mode and notion of reducibility; LISP host
environment with embedded logic programming system;
uses structure sharing techniques with reduction;
functions in modules; set of new LISP primitives
callable from within LISP programs.
AVAILABILITY: Commercial, academic and US Government licenses.
COST: $30 to $400, depending on license.
LOCATION: About 150 systems in the USA (academic, commercial
and US Government establishments).
CONTACT: K. J. Greene
313 Link Hall
School of Computer and Information Science
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13210
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: Micro-Prolog
VERSION: 3.1 (dated March 1984)
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Assembler/ CP/M-80 and MSDOS microcomputers.
FEATURES: Extensibility of supervisor made possible by modules;
interactive program text editor; editor and trace
utility modules; real numbers; memory trace facility;
SIMPLE extension to supervisor; DEC-10 front end for
machines with >64KB memories; APES -- Expert System
Shell available.
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial licenses available.
COST: For CPM80 machines: 125 pounds or $195;
for CPM86/MSDOS/PCDOS machine: 175 pounds or $295;
special rates for educational institutions.
LOCATION: Over 2000 systems sold worldwide, about 50% in USA,
and 10% in Japan. About half are in educational
institutions.
CONTACT: Programming Logic Systems
31 Crescent Drive
Milford, CT 06460
or
Logic Programming Associates
Studio 4, The Royal Victoria Patriotic Building
Trinity Road
London SW18 6SX
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: MProlog
VERSION: 1.5 (dated 1984)
SRC/MACHINE/OS: CDL2 & Prolog; DEC VAX: VMS and UNIX (4.2 BSD); IBM: VM/CMS,
MVS/TSO; IBM-PC: PC DOS; 68000 based UNIX variations;
Tektronix 4404 workstation.
FEATURES: interpreter; program development environment - interactive
editor, concurrent proof editing, trace facilities; user-
defined error handling; garbage collection; over 250
built-in predicates; external routine interfaces;
modularity; portability
AVAILABILITY: wide range-- commercial, educational, per CPU, OEM
distribution and run-time licences
COST: Educational and OEM discounts available.
LOCATION: Hungary and other European countries, UK, Canada, US.
CONTACT: Logicware Inc.
5000 Birch Street
West Tower, Suite 3000
Newport Beach, CA 92660
(714) 476-3634
or
Logicware Inc.
1000 Finch W., Suite 600
Toronto, Canada M3J 2V5
(416) 665-0022
or
Systems, Computers and Informatics Laboratory, SZKI
1368 Budapest, POB 224
Hungary
DATED: March 1985
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NAME: Micro-Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: 68000/UNIX, VAX/UNIX,
FEATURES: Different syntax, APES expert system shell.
COST: $700 for 68000, $1500 for VAX, $1000 for APES.
CONTACT: Logic Programming Associates, Ltd.
36 Gorst Road
London SW11 6JE
U.K.
Or
Programming Logic Systems
31 Crescent Drive
Milford, CT 06460
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: Modula-Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Modula-2, MS-DOS, VAX VMS and UNIX
FEATURES: Modula-Prolog is a software package written in Modula-2,
offering tools for constructing Prolog interpreters which
can interact in many ways with other Modula-2 programs.
Fully compatible with Clocksin & Mellish.
AVAILABILITY: ?
COST: ?
CONTACT: Carlo Muller
Brown Boveri Research
CH-5405 Baden
Switzerland
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NAME: MU-Prolog
VERSION: 3.1db
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C/UNIX on VAX-11/780, Perkin Elmer 3240, MC68000
FEATURES: Compatible with UNIX and DEC-10 Prologs.
AVAILABILITY: Now. Write for details.
COST: $200 (Australian)
STATUS: In development
CONTACT: Lee Naish (USENET: decvax!mulga!lee)
Department of Computer Science
University of Melbourne
Parkville, Victoria 3052
Australia
DATED: December 1983
NOTES: Extra control facilities enable coroutining. Three
forms of negation, which are delayed if the predicates
are insufficiently instantiated, etc. Version 3.1db
includes database system.
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NAME: Pascal Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Pascal
FEATURES: Marseilles syntax, very limited set of evaluable
predicates (arithmetic, output, bagof); tail recursion
and some intelligent backtracking.
AVAILABILITY: for research purposes only
COST: $70 handling charge
STATUS: probably frozen, very portable.
CONTACT: Maurice Bruynooghe.
Katolicke Universite de Leuven,
Adfelung Toegepaste Wiskunde en Programmatic,
B-3030 Heverlee,
Belgium.
Tel: (32) 16 200656
DATED: February 1983
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NAME: POPLOG
SRC/MACHINE/OS: VAX (VMS and UNIX), Sun II and HP9000/200
FEATURES: combination of POP-11, Lisp and Prolog; incremental
compiler; routines written in C, fortran and Ada may
be linked into POPLOG environment
AVAILABILITY: academic and commercial licenses
COST: educational discounts available.
CONTACT: Systems Designers Software, Inc
5203 Leesbury Pike, Suite 1201
Falls Church, Virginia 22041
(703) 820-2700
or
Cognitive Studies Programme
School of Social Studies
Sussex University
Falmer, Brighton BN1 9QN
or
Systems Designers Ltd.
1 Pembroke Broadway
Camberley, Surrey GU15 3XH
Tel: 0276 62244
DATED: March 1985
NOTES: June release will include Common Lisp. POPLOG is
marketed under license from the university of Sussex.
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NAME: Prolog-1
SRC/MACHINE/OS: MS-DOS, CP/M, PDP-11 VAX, Macintosh
FEATURES: standard syntax, ES/P expert system shell, 1KLIPS on
VAX/VMS
AVAILABILITY: ?
COST: $3,275 (VAX/VMS)
CONTACT: Expert Systems, International
34 Alexandra Road
Oxford OX2 0DB
U.K.
or
1150 First Avenue
King of Prussia, PA 19406
DATED: March 1985
NOTES: Plans to interface to RAPPORT relational database.
Teknowledge used this Prolog for their M.1 product.
See March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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NAME: Prolog-2
SRC/MACHINE/OS: largely Prolog, CP/M-86, MS-DOS, RSX/RT/11; IBM-C
FEATURES: Fast interpreter; compiler for IBM-PC version only;
DEC-10 compatible syntax; source file editor, clause
indexing, talk recursion optimization, virtual memory
facility, debugger (OR-gree), error handler, garbage
collector, ability to overlay modules, windowing
scheme, help facility.
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial.
COST: Varies with license.
CONTACT: Expert Systems International, Ltd.
same address as Prolog-1
DATED: June 1985
NOTES: Compiler/interpreter for VAX/VMS to be released
early 1986.
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NAME: Prolog-10 and Prolog-20
VERSION: 3.52 (Prolog-10), 1.5 (Prolog-20)
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Prolog+Macro-10; TOPS-10 and TOPS-20
FEATURES: Compiler and interpreter
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial licenses
STATUS: stable, maintenance only
CONTACT: Quintus Computer Systems
2345 Yale Street, Palo Alto, CA 94304
(415)494-3612
DATED: July 1984
NOTES: this version is vastly improved in comparison with
the original Edinburgh system: an incremental compiler
intergrated with the interpreter producing
tail-recursion optimized code, an interactive debugger
and execution stepper for interpreted code, many other
goodies; the TOPS-20 version runs in native mode and
has a number of improvements over the TOPS-10 one
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NAME: Prolog-86
VERSION: ?
SRC/MACHINE/OS: MS-DOS, PC-DOS, CPM-86
FEATURES: ?
AVAILABILITY: ?
COST: $125
CONTACT: Solution Systems
335-D Washington Street
Norwell, MA 02061
(617) 659-1571
DATED: March 1985
NOTES: See March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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NAME: Prolog-II
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Prolog, Pascal, Candide, Fortran; many operating systems.
FEATURES: Portability on account of virtual machine, and interpeter
and compiler; interactive clause development editor;
unification to infinite trees; postponement of evaluation;
new data structures; modularity as system of "worlds",
tree structured rule space.
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial.
COST: 2500F to 15000F.
LOCATION: Several sites in France, others in Europe and Venezuela.
CONTACT: M van Canegham
PrologIA
278 Rue St. Pierre
13005 Marseille
France
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: Prolog-V
VERSION: ?
SRC/MACHINE/OS: IBM PC & compatibles
FEATURES: ?
AVAILABILITY: ?
COST: $69.95
CONTACT: Chalcedony Software
5580 La Jolla Blvd.
Suite 126A
La Jolla, CA 92037
(619) 483-8513
DATED: March 1985
NOTES: See March 1985 issue of Dr. Dobb's Journal.
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NAME: Prolog-CRISS (formerly FOLL-Prolog)
VERSION: 3.1 dated 1985
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Pascal, HB68/MULTICS; ICL2900/VME/B; soon to be
implemented on SM90-68000 UNIX machine.
FEATURES: Interpreter; cross-referencing between program
identifiers, partial delay of program execution,
intelligent backtracking, loop detection, defninite
clause grammar, translation.
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial.
COST: 10000F, or 1000F for academic use.
CONTACT: CRISS - BP 47X
38040 Grenoble Cedex
France
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: PROLOG/P
VERSION: 2.00
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Wide range of systems, including VAX/VMS and 68000
machines.
FEATURES: Interpreter written in Pascal, programming environment
written in Prolog/P; possesses powerful yet portable
features of Prolog language; interactive programming
environment, flexible and extensible; modularity: can
incorporate modules written in other languages; large
number of evaluable predicates; optimized memory
management, tail recursion, garbage collection.
Speed: 1300 LIPS on VAX 750/VMS.
AVAILABILITY: Academic and commercial.
CONTACT: Mr. Hentinger
CRIL (Conception et Realisation Industriel de Logiciel)
12 Bis, Rue Jean-Jaures
92807 Puteaux
France
Tel: 776.34 37
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: Quintus Prolog
VERSION: 1.0
SRC/MACHINE/OS: 4.2 Unix on VAX and SUN, System V on CT Megaframe and
VAX/VMS.
FEATURES: incremental optimizing compiler with TRO and indexing;
interpreter with full Prolog-10/20-type debugger;
fancy Emacs interface with reconsulting/recompilation
from editor buffers (Unipress Emacs license included);
C interface; 23KLIPS on a VAX-780, 20KLIPS on a SUN-2.
AVAILABILITY: supported commercial license, academic and multiple CPU
discounts.
COST: approx. $17,000 for VAX and $8400 for 68000; 60%
academic discount.
STATUS: continuing development, fully supported
CONTACT: Jonathan Newmann
Quintus Computer Systems, Inc.
2345 Yale Street
Palo Alto, CA 94304
(415)494-3612
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: Salford University Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Fortran 77, runs on Prime computers
FEATURES: Edinburgh syntax; packaged with Salford Lisp; programs
in one language can call programs in the other.
COST: $3500 for universities, $750 annual maint.
CONTACT: Salford University Industrial Centre Limited
Salford M5 4WT
England
Or
Mitchell Associates
P.O. Box 6189
San Rafael, CA
(415) 435-2024
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: UNH Prolog
VERSION: 1.3 (1985)
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C, VAX/VMS and UNIX
FEATURES: Compatible with DEC-10/20 Prolog
AVAILABILITY: Per machine license for all users
COST: $300 handling charge for all users
STATUS: Active
CONTACT: James L. Weiner/Wendy Fogg
Department of Computer Science
University of New Hampshire
Durham, New Hampshire 03824
NOTES: Fully-compatible to EDINBURGH Prolog, with exception that
some of the more obscure features are not implemented.
Debugging features of EDINBURGH Prolog also implemented.
Hooks into UNIX supported.
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NAME: UNIX Prolog
VERSION: NU7
SRC/MACHINE/OS: PDP-11 Assembly/V6 or V7 Unix
FEATURES: Interpreter, similar to DEC-10 version
AVAILABILITY: Restricted License per machine
COST: 20 pounds sterling (24 AUG 1981)
STATUS: development stopped
CONTACT: Robert Rae
Department of Artificial Intelligence
University of Edinburgh
Forrest Hill
Edinburgh EH1 2QL Scotland,
U.K.
DATED: December 1982
NOTES: Uses copy-on-use data representation. Has been run in
compatability mode on VAX's under 4.1 BSD, but is
restricted by PDP-11 address space.
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NAME: UNSW Prolog
VERSION: 4
SRC/MACHINE/OS: C/Unix V7,32V,5.0,4.1BSD
FEATURES: Interpreter, enhanced UNIX interface Based on DEC-10 Prolog
(not completely compatible)
AVAILABILITY: Educational and research purposes only
COST: A$100 in Australia,
US$150 elsewhere
STATUS: version 3 running for two years at UNSW
version 4 recently completed
CONTACT: Claude Sammut
(USENET: decvax!mulga!munnari!basser!elecvax!claude )
Department of Computer Science
University of New South Wales
P.O. Box 1
Kensington, N.S.W. 2033
Australia
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NAME: Uranus System
SRC/MACHINE/OS: LISP/Dec 20, VAX/UNIX, Symbolics
FEATURES: A superset of Prolog/KR (Prolog for Knowledge
Representation). DEC 10 compatibility features;
multiple worlds mechanism, lazy and pseudo parallel
evaluation.
AVAILABILITY: Academic only
CONTACT: Hideyuki Nakashima
Information Processing Group
Electrotechnical Laboratory
Sakura-mura, Ibaraki 305, Japan
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NAME: VPI Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Pascal, VAX with VMS.
FEATURES: Uses list allocation (9 byte cons) and syntax,
double precision reals; facilities for interactive
program development; interfaces to Lisp, Pascal and
Fortran available, also general purpose expert system
shell.
AVAILABILITY: Unrestricted.
COST: $1000
LOCATION: 6 systems in the field outside VPI, including academic,
commercial and US Government sites.
CONTACT: Prof. John Roach,
Dept. of Computer Science,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Blacksburg, Va.
(703) 961 5368
DATED: February 1983
NOTES: Compiler under construction.
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NAME: Waterloo Prolog
SRC/MACHINE/OS: IBM VM/CMS, 68000
FEATURES: Very fast interpreter
AVAILABILITY: ?
COST: ?
CONTACT: Intralogic Inc.
330 Weber St. North
Waterloo, Ontario
Canada
(519) 888-6671
DATED: June 1985
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NAME: York Portable Prolog
VERSION: 2
SRC/MACHINE/OS: Pascal interpreter (ISO Standard Pascal)/ wide range
of systems that support Pascal.
FEATURES: Modelled after Edinburgh PDP-11 version; large number
of built-in predicates; interactive debugging package
written in Prolog; supports full Prolog syntax, with
definite clause grammars, garbage collection of the
Prolog database.
AVAILABILITY: Educational, research etc.
COST: 200 pounds sterling.
STATUS: Available now
CONTACT: Mrs Jennifer TUrner
Software Technology Research Centre
Department of Computer Science
University of York
York, YO1 5DD, U.K.
(0904) 59861
DATED: December 1984
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---------------------------------------------------------------------bts@evergreen.cs.unc.edu (Bruce Smith) (07/08/89)
I've been maintaining a list of Prolog systems for several years
and distributing that list over various electronic networks. The
list has not been updated since October, 1988, so it's about time
to make it current, again. Last year's list included information
on over 50 Prologs:
AAIS Prolog, A.D.A. Prolog, ALS Prolog, Arity/Prolog,
Basser Prolog, BIM-Prolog, BNR Macintosh Prolog,
C-Prolog, Caltech Prolog, CLP(R),
Edinburgh Prolog, EqL, ExperProlog-II,
GProlog,
Horne, HP Prolog,
ICL Prolog, IF/Prolog,
Lambda Prolog, LISPLOG, LM-Prolog, LOGLISP, LPA Mac-Prolog,
MacPROLOG, Micro-Prolog, Modula-Prolog, MProlog, MU-Prolog,
NU-Prolog,
PARLOG, Personal Prolog, POPLOG, Prolog-1, Prolog-2,
Prolog-10 and Prolog-20, Prolog-86, Prolog-II, PROLOG/i,
PROLOG/m, Prolog-CRISS, PROLOG/P,
Quintus Prolog,
Rhet,
Salford University Prolog, SB-Prolog, Sicstus Prolog
TI Prolog, Trilogy,
UNH Prolog, UNSW Prolog, Uranus System
VM/Prolog, VS/Prolog, VPI Prolog
WProlog
York Portable Prolog
ZYX Macintosh Prolog
Corrections and updates are always welcome. I've received a few
updates already, and I'll have a newer version of the list some-
time in August. (Other updates processed as they arrive.)
The easiest way to get a copy of the list is anonymous FTP from
"dopey.cs.unc.edu". The README file in pub/LIST has more info.
If you cannot FTP, send me e-mail and I will try to send a copy
by return mail.
Most of the information in last year's list-- and more-- can be
found in the list compilerd by Chris Moss for Oct/Nov 1988 Logic
Programming Newsletter.
Other Comments:
There is no entry for Turbo-Prolog. I'm willing to include Turbo
if someone will write a (non-inflammatory) description. There is
also no nothing on Wisdom Prolog, Strand and several others that
I would like to say something about.
I do not know Prolog systems whose names begin with the letters
'D', 'F', 'J', 'K', 'O' or 'X'. Implementors of new systems take
note...
___________________________________________
Bruce T. Smith bts@cs.unc.edu
Dept. of Computer Science - OR -
Sitterson Hall, CB # 3175 bts@cs.duke.edu
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3175mmh@ivax.doc.ic.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach) (07/09/89)
In article <8742@thorin.cs.unc.edu> bts@evergreen.cs.unc.edu (Bruce Smith) writes: >to make it current, again. Last year's list included information >on over 50 Prologs: > > PARLOG, Personal Prolog, POPLOG, Prolog-1, Prolog-2, ^^^^^^ >also no nothing on Wisdom Prolog, Strand and several others that ^^^^^^ Having worked on the language for the past three years, I do not consider PARLOG to be "a Prolog". Taking away built-in backtracking and full unification but adding concurrency make it a completely different language. I feel it is positively harmful to approach PARLOG from the view that it is a "parallel Prolog" since this tends to emphasise its restrictions vis-a-vis Prolog but to hide its powers. Opinions within the concurrent logic language community tend to vary between those who would like to bring it back towards Prolog (e.g. with varieties like Pandora) and those who have recognised it is a powerful language in its own right and concentrate on exploring its capabilities or developing robust commercial versions (of which Strand is one). This is my personal opinion, not necessarily shard by other members of the PARLOG group. Matthew Huntbach, Dept. of Computing, Imperial College, London UK.