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From: ted@nmsu.edu (Ted Dunning)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Environments
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Date: 25 Mar 91 18:51:24 GMT
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In-reply-to: ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au's message of 25 Mar 91 05:24:28 GMT


In article <5044@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au> ok@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au (Richard A. O'Keefe) writes:

	... about turbo prolog ...
   > o There is plenty of on-line help, plus a very complete set of
   >   manuals.

   Hm.  Presumably PDC have rewritten the manuals completely.  I found
   the Turbo 2.something manuals incomplete and confusing.



in particular, what i found most confusing was the fact that the bold
print warning was missing.  it should have read:


THIS PRODUCT IS NOT AN IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE PROLOG.


i spent several hours trying to divine how the implementors expected
one to write prolog programs before i realized that they explicitly
didn't want me to be writing in prolog.



anybody who thinks otherwise should post an viable implementation of
setof/3 in turbo (pdc) prolog.