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Language peer sets for Prolog:
France
France/1971
Designed 1971
1970s languages
Third generation
High Cold War
Genus Horn clause
String and List Processing
Horn clause
Context-based
Data representation
Horn clause/1971
Context-based /1971
Data representation/1971
Horn clause/France
Context-based /France
Data representation/France
String and List Processing
String and List Processing/1971
String and List Processing/fr

Prolog(ID:562/pro033)

Logic programming language 

alternate simple view
Country: France
Designed 1971
Published: 1971
Genus: Horn clause
Sammet category: String and List Processing


PROgrammation en LOGique. Alain Colmerauer and Phillipe Roussel, U Aix-Marseille 1971.

Designed originally for natural-language processing. LUSH (or SLD) resolution theorem proving based on the unification algorithm. No user-defined functions, and no control structure other than the built-in depth-first search with backtracking. Consists of a rich collection of data structures, and a powerful notation for encoding end-user applications.It has logical and declarative aspects, interpretive nature, compactness, and inherent modularity. It solves problems by searching a knowledge base (or more correctly database) which would be greatly improved if several processors are made to search different parts of the database.  

Early collaboration between Marseille and R. Kowalski at U Edinburgh continued until about 1975.

First implemented 1972 in ALGOL-W.


ref: Hutchins 2001
" At Montreal, research began in 1970 on a syntactic transfer system for English-French translation. The TAUM project (Traduction Automatique de l"Université de Montréal) had two major achievements: firstly, the Q-system formalism for manipulating linguistic strings and trees (later developed as the Prolog programming language), and secondly, the Météo system for translating weather forecasts."



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References:
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          in [Proceedings] (1977) Second Hungarian Conference on Computer Science (June, 1977)
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          in (2001) Histoire, Epistemologie, Langage XXII(1) 2001
  • (2002) Library of Congress Subject Headings P76
          in (2001) Histoire, Epistemologie, Langage XXII(1) 2001
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