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From: clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Chien-Hong Lin)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Parlog references
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Date: 25 May 91 04:08:34 GMT
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In article <4672@skye.ed.ac.uk>, ken@aiai.ed.ac.uk (Ken Johnson) writes:
> In article <1991May9.063445.9755@eng.umd.edu> clin@eng.umd.edu (Charles Chien-Hong Lin) writes:
> 
> >> Does anybody have some references of articles or books about Parlog ?
> 
> Conlon, T: Programming in Parlog. Addison Wesley, 1989. ISBN 0 201 17450 2
> 
> Gregory, S: Parallel logic programming in Parlog, the language and its
> implementation.  Addison Wesley.  (?ISBN)
> 
> Shapiro E (Ed) 1988: Concurrent Prolog, collected papers.  MIT Press. 
> (?ISBN)

   Actually, I didn't write the message above, but was replying to
someone who did.  I, in fact, own Conlon's book.  It's a fairly
easy to read book that assumes some background in CS (no more
than an intro course, however).  S. Gregory's book appears to
be more towards implementation as the title suggest, so it's not
so easy to read unless you're more familiar with languages (I'm
not).  Concurrent Prolog is not specifically on PARLOG, but
makes references to it.  I think Shapiro claims some superiority
of his version of parallel Prolog over Gregory's, though
I read in Conlon that Gregory's version was further along.  Since
the book is some two years old (Conlon's), I really do not
know the current status.
   Now for a question of my own.  What is the status of parallel
Prolog (an implementation)?  Has any one come to be the standard
(I doubt it, it seems still under development)?  Is it in any
kind of wide use or is it still mainly used by the folks who
developped?  How effectiveis the parallelism?  

   Just a novice asking some questions.

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