ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) (09/02/90)
Archive-name: prolog-archives/26-Aug-90 Original-posting-by: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Original-subject: Re: Prolog program/library repository Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) In article <9640@bunny.GTE.COM>, tomf@GTE.COM (Tom Fawcett) writes: > I remember hearing several years ago that there is a repository of Prolog > programs/libraries on one of the Stanford machines. Does this repository > still exist? Could someone mail me the machine and directory names? Chuck Restivo was looking after it when he was running the Prolog Digest. As I recall it, the machine was decommissioned; I could be mistaken. > I also heard that it contains just the Prolog libraries from Edinburgh, most > of which are now distributed with Quintus Prolog. Is this true? 1. The DEC-10 Prolog library (with a couple of extra things) is available from the AI Applications Institute at the University of Edinburgh. The UK ALP are also putting together a Prolog library, which will include this. (No FTP access yet.) 2. The <Prolog> directory at Stanford had quite a number of things which were _not_ in the DEC-10 Prolog library. There was a bridge-playing program, there were a couple of compilers for committed-choice parallel languages, things like that. I've no idea where that stuff went. (For committed-choice languages, there is a sort of "evaluation kit" supposed to be available from the University of Edinburgh.) 3. The Quintus Prolog library contains about 2/3rds of the DEC-10 Prolog library (which was written by people who later joined Quintus), plus lots and lots of extra goodies. About half of the QP library is Edinburgh-derived, and that half has been cleaned up and speeded up and corrected. It comes free with Quintus Prolog. -- The taxonomy of Pleistocene equids is in a state of confusion.