kjb@nancy.UUCP (03/25/87)
Are there any Prolog hackers out there?
I'm looking for information about a product called Wisdom Prolog.
It's advertised in the back of "The Art of Prolog" by E. Shapiro. The
ad says it comes in IBM, Macintosh and Amiga versions.(1) A
part of the ad says that more info can be gotten from M. Goldberg at
max@wisdom (CSNET or BITNET). I'm trying to contact them, but I'm
also looking for an opinion from someone who has paid for and used the
product. Is there anybody out there who fills the bill?
For anyone who is interested, the ad in the book claims that Wisdom
Prolog has:
100 system predicates
powerful debugger
ms-dos/unix/vms compatibility
screen management
hooks to the OS
It's also $95, which makes it an attractive buy if it can measure up
to the above claims. If you want more info, wait a few weeks and
email me and I'll let you know what I found out. If there's
sufficient interest, I'll get a bullhorn and broadcast from the top of
my house.
BTW, thanks to those who responded to my inquiry about Manx 3.40 and
Shell, I never patched my copy of 3.20, and would rather wait until
Shell is updated to compile correctly under 3.40. But, why was this
included as a part of the 3.40 distribution if the only way to compile
it correctly is with a patched 3.20 compiler? Oh well, at least the
price was right.
(1) Yes, this is a footnote. I thought it was telling that these
three machines were singled out for this product. More and more I see
this sort of thing happening. The other day, in an article about how
IBM may be committing corporate suicide by departing from the standard
they themselves established (what a delightful thought), a reference
was made to "other uncompatible microcomputers, such as the Apple
Macintosh and the Commodore Amiga." Well, I was encouraged anyway;
bring on the Amiga ads!
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