kam@druhi.ATT.COM (MorrisseyKA) (01/21/88)
Does anyone out there have WISDOM prolog, the one listed in the back of "The Art of Prolog"? I have the IBM PC version 2.00B. I ordered it fall '86, it arrived summer of '87 after two broken promises of availability, and now that I have finally started using it I am disapointed. It is poorly documented, the manual is poor and sadly out of date compared to the software. It crashes when running a compiler I had written under C-Prolog. It doesn't even handle tail recursion. Anyone else out there have any other experiences?
daveh@phred.UUCP (Dave Hampton) (01/26/88)
In article <2601@druhi.ATT.COM> kam@druhi.ATT.COM (MorrisseyKA) writes: >Does anyone out there have WISDOM prolog, the one listed in the back of >"The Art of Prolog"? After a year and a half of monthly phone calls to MIT Press, I finally got a copy of Wisdom Prolog 3 months ago, and it is pretty sad. The documentation and editing capabilities are non- existant, and I, too, have run into a number of crashes. I also got the disk which contains the programming examples from the book. It arrived a year before the language disk (and was billed a year before the language disk, even though it couldn't be run...). Every example was copied (accurately, I must admit), even the ones which don't run under Prolog (Programs 3.1, 3.2, and 3.3, for example). Overall, a very disappointing purchase. Back to Turbo Prolog, I guess..:-)... Dave Hampton