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From: bimandre@saturnus.cs.kuleuven.ac.be (Andre Marien)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: carridge return
Keywords: sick
Message-ID: <3191@n-kulcs.cs.kuleuven.ac.be>
Date: 2 May 91 09:33:12 GMT
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Message-ID: <5448@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
> Any good Prolog textbook will tell you how to read a line of
> characters.  Mine does.

Message-ID: <5449@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
> I am sick of Prolog text-books written by people who didn't bother
> to learn the language.

Message-ID: <5481@goanna.cs.rmit.oz.au>
> Quintus users, of course, already have suitable operations in
> library(lineio), which is described in the manual.

If people ask how to write something basic in Prolog, it certainly does not help
saying: use the library, we allready solved that for you.

I am sick of supposed-to-be Prolog text-books refering to library predicates, which you
need to consult to be able to read the books.

I hate pure advertising on the net : 'Mine does', 'Quintus users, of course'.,
certainly if intermixed with decent comments, a typical advertiser trick.

Andre' Marien
bimandre@cs.kuleuven.ac.be
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