Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!samsung!munnari.oz.au!goanna!ok From: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: SICStus prolog vs. SBprolog? Message-ID: <4010@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> Date: 18 Oct 90 15:47:04 GMT References: <40304@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU> Organization: Comp Sci, RMIT, Melbourne, Australia Lines: 20 In article <40304@shemp.CS.UCLA.EDU>, kirkaas@ewa.cs.ucla.edu (paul kirkaas) writes: > I am interested if anyone has compared these two prologs; what are > their relative merits? SB Prolog: never mind the quality, feel the price! (It's free.) SICStus Prolog: it isn't free, but put it this way: I can't think why anyone who actually wants to use Prolog for serious work would prefer SB Prolog to it. It hews much closer to the `de facto' `Edinburgh' standard than SB Prolog (Saumya Debray, on whom be blessing, wrote that one of the privileges of an author of free programs is to indulge his own taste). Performance is much better. As in really rather good (even if you haven't got a 68020 and have to use C-interpreted code rather than native code). It doesn't fall over as often as SB Prolog. It has a rather crude form of coroutining (everything you need to build more powerful schemes). If you can't afford a commercial Prolog, SICStus Prolog is the best I know of. -- Fear most of all to be in error. -- Kierkegaard, quoting Socrates.