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From: gooley@uicsl.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog
Subject: Prolog compilation?
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Date: Mon, 10-Mar-86 16:27:00 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 10 16:27:00 1986
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A reference that keeps appearing in article after article about Prolog is
D. H. D. Warren's "Implementing Prolog -- compiling predicate logic programs"
(D.A.I. Research Reports 39 and 40, Dept. of Artificial Intelligence,
University of Edinburgh, 1977).  Is it just being mentioned as a matter of
form (as the over-rated Mead & Conway VLSI textbook is in its field), or is
it genuinely useful?  (I'm interested in optimizing Prolog but I don't want to
"re-invent the wheel.") I haven't been able to look at a copy: the C.S. dept.
library here (recently described as "the best in the country") discards
all technical reports that nobody marks as immediately useful, the
inter-library loan people tell me that no U. S. library has a copy, and my
letter to Edinburgh has been absorbed by a black hole (wrong address?).

Has some better, more-readily-available book or report on compiling Prolog
been written? Failing that, could someone lend me a copy of the Warren
reports? Many thanks.


Mark Gooley, Computer Systems Group, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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