Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!think.com!spool.mu.edu!munnari.oz.au!mel.dit.csiro.au!yarra!bohra.cpg.oz.au!als From: als@bohra.cpg.oz.au (Anthony Shipman) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Re: Ignorant question about Logic and prolog Message-ID: <1991Jun14.130850.13707@bohra.cpg.oz.au> Date: 14 Jun 91 13:08:50 GMT Article-I.D.: bohra.1991Jun14.130850.13707 References: <5828@uniol.UUCP> Organization: Software Division, Computer Power Group Lines: 16 In article <5828@uniol.UUCP>, Jens.Rettig@arbi.informatik.uni-oldenburg.de (Jens Rettig) writes: > Generally , Prolog is capable of solving those kind of probelms > quite easily. You just have to think of a way of representing the > facts you have and the rules that have to be obeid. But it is a little > to complicated to explain if you know nothing about prolog. > However, Prolog is easy to learn and should provide you with the Skills > to do such things quite early ! I suspect that formulating such problems in Prolog is the lion's share of the problem. The rest is just mechanical and can usually be done with pencil and paper quite easily. -- Anthony Shipman "You've got to be taught before it's too late, Computer Power Group Before you are six or seven or eight, 19 Cato St., East Hawthorn, To hate all the people your relatives hate, Melbourne, Australia You've got to be carefully taught." R&H