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From: bradley@cs.utexas.edu (Bradley L. Richards)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: this seems to have bounced back....
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Date: 2 May 90 19:11:36 GMT
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>thanks to all of you who told me about prolog interpreters for the ibm... but
>i'm curious, no responses came from the us and a great number of articles on
>comp.lang.prolog aren't from the us.... why?
>	kevin lyda@lictor.acsu.buffalo.edu

Probably because the bulk of the AI community in the U.S. is convinced that
Lisp is God's gift to mankind, and to use anything else is a sin.  The rest
of the world is somewhat more sensible....

I'd be interested in a summary of the responses you got.  I'm currently
looking at the LPA (Quintus) demo, and I except to get a copy of Arity
tomorrow to look at.  Turbo Prolog is ok for applications programming,
but hopeless for any meta-programming.  FWIW, the student price for the
Arity interpreter is $200, while the student price for the LPA "incremental
compiler" (read interpreter) is $381.  The compilers are extra in each
case.  If anyone is interested, I'll post benchmarks for the two.  I don't
have enough info to evaluate the relative features of the two, as the
PDA demo came with very limited information.


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