lagache@violet.berkeley.edu (Edouard Lagache) (03/21/88)
I spent a few hours carefully collecting all the
comments on the proposed BSI PROLOG standard that have been
posted to the PROLOG SIG. The result was a 160Kb file! The
reason for this exercise in tedium was my desire to write an
article on the pros and cons on this standard for the next
issue of the PROLOG Forum newsletter. However, for obvious
reasons, I am not particularly anxious to try to comb through
all them bytes of complex argumentation, and I am not
optimistic that I could do any of the participants justice.
Thus, I would like ask those persons who expressed some
substantial position on the new PROLOG standard, if they
might be interested in submitting to the PROLOG Forum
something equivalent to a short (1-3 page) position paper on
the standard.
Because we are such a new group, our editorial policies
are still in the process of coalescing, but at the moment I
would think that a very informal sort of piece of the sort
that you might post to the net would be very acceptable.
Should you have any interest and/or questions please
direct them to me, and I will do my best to answer them or if
necessary to rely them to our newsletter editor.
I am looking forward to a lot of interesting commentary!
Edouard Lagache
lagache@violet.berkeley.edu
P.S. A minor detail, but anyone wishing to submit a text can simply
e-mail it to this account. If prefered, one could send an
PC or Mac compatible disk with the text in "flat ASCII" format to:
The PROLOG Forum
P.O. Box 3826
Redwood City, CA, 94064, USA.
Paper text is "okay" too, but obviously we would prefer to avoid
the typing!