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From: jan@cancol.oz (Jan Newmarch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Borland International
Summary: Turbo Prolog
Keywords: Phillipe exists!
Message-ID: <223@cancol.oz>
Date: 30 Oct 89 00:11:12 GMT
References: <1246@krafla.rhi.hi.is> <AZEdI9u00VoH4TnkUp@andrew.cmu.edu> <6241@tekgvs.LABS.TEK.COM>
Organization: Info. Sciences, Canberra Coll. of Adv. Ed.
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> And they did all their languages (Pascal, Prolog, Basic, Assembler) except 

The story I heard is that Turbo Prolog was developed by a European firm
(Swedish?) and was offered to the makers of a leading Prolog for Sun
and other workstations. They turned it down because it was too far from
the Prolog standard, but Borland took it anyway.

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