Prolog

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Prolog \Pro"log\, n. & v.
     Prologue.
     [1913 Webster]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  PROLOG \PRO"LOG\ (pr[=o]"l[o^]g), n. (Computers)
     A declarative higher-level programming language in which
     instructions are written not as explicit procedural
     data-manipulation commands, but as logical statements. The
     language has built-in resolution procedures for logical
     inference.
     [PJC]

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  higher programming language \higher programming language\ n.
     (Computers)
     A computer programming language with an instruction set
     allowing one instruction to code for several assembly
     language instructions.
  
     Note: The aggregation of several assembly-language
           instructions into one instruction allows much greater
           efficiency in writing computer programs. Most programs
           are now written in some higher programming language,
           such as {BASIC}, {FORTRAN}, {COBOL}, {C}, {C++},
           {PROLOG}, or {JAVA}.
           [PJC]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Prolog
       n : a computer language designed in Europe to support natural
           language processing [syn: {logic programing}, {logic
           programming}]

From Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002) [vera]:

  PROLOG
       PROgramming in LOGic
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Prolog
       
           Programming in Logic or (French) Programmation
          en Logique.  The first of the huge family of {logic
          programming} languages.
       
          Prolog was invented by Alain Colmerauer and Phillipe Roussel
          at the University of Aix-Marseille in 1971.  It was first
          implemented 1972 in {ALGOL-W}.  It was designed originally for
          {natural-language processing} but has become one of the most
          widely used languages for {artificial intelligence}.
       
          It is based on {LUSH} (or {SLD}) {resolution} {theorem
          proving} and {unification}.  The first versions had no
          user-defined functions and no control structure other than the
          built-in {depth-first search} with {backtracking}.  Early
          collaboration between Marseille and Robert Kowalski at
          {University of Edinburgh} continued until about 1975.
       
          Early implementations included {C-Prolog}, {ESLPDPRO},
          {Frolic}, {LM-Prolog}, {Open Prolog}, {SB-Prolog}, {UPMAIL
          Tricia Prolog}.  In 1998, the most common Prologs in use are
          {Quintus Prolog}, {SICSTUS Prolog}, {LPA Prolog}, {SWI
          Prolog}, {AMZI Prolog}, {SNI Prolog}.
       
          {ISO} draft standard at {Darmstadt, Germany
          (ftp://ftp.th-darmstadt.de/pub/programming/languages/prolog/standard/)}.
          or {UGA, USA (ftp://ai.uga.edu/ai.prolog.standard)}.
       
          See also {negation by failure}, {Kamin's interpreters},
          {Paradigms of AI Programming}, {Aditi}.
       
          A Prolog {interpreter} in {Scheme}.
          {(ftp://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/prolog1.1)}.
       
          {A Prolog package
          (ftp://cpsc.ucalgary.ca/pub/prolog1.1/prolog11.tar.Z)} from
          the {University of Calgary} features {delayed goals} and
          {interval arithmetic}.  It requires {Scheme} with
          {continuations}.
       
          ["Programming in Prolog", W.F. Clocksin & C.S. Mellish,
          Springer, 1985].
       
          (2001-04-01)
       
       

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:

  Prolog++
       
          (After {C++}) {Prolog} with {object-oriented} features added
          by Phil Vasey of {Logic Programming Associates}.  Prolog++ is
          available for {MS-DOS} and the {X Window System}.  It is
          distributed by {AI International} Ltd. in England and by
          {Quintus}.