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- From: Alain.Callebaut@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Alain Callebaut)
- Subject: Re: Different Strokes for Different Folks (Was: Assessing a language)
- Reply-To: Alain.Callebaut@cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Alain Callebaut)
- Organization: BIM Belgium
- Date: Mon, 25 Jan 1993 10:12:25 GMT
- Approved: compilers@iecc.cambridge.ma.us
- Message-ID: <93-01-176@comp.compilers>
- Keywords: prolog, functional
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- Peter Ludemann writes :
- > Two Prolog implementations that have good foreign language interfaces are
- > IBM Prolog (CMS, MVS, OS/2) and Quintus Prolog (Unix, DOS). No doubt
- > there are others.
-
- Sure, there are !
- Maybe you forgot the Prolog review that was published in AI Expert of
- January 1991 (page 45-50 for the SPARC Prolog systems).
-
- For years now, ProLog by BIM has had an extremely flexible and advanced
- interface between Prolog and other languages, including C, Pascal and
- Fortran. It enabled us to write interfaces to windowing systems and data
- bases. Our very first SunView interface (dating from the beginning of
- SunView itself), was quite complete, and we did not need any tricks to
- bypass shortcomings of the provided interface facilities. The
- backtracking example you mention, will be solved much cleaner and with
- less burden for the programmer in the forthcoming release of ProLog by
- BIM.
-
- Alain Callebaut
- BIM - ProLog Development
- ac@sunbim.be
-
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