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From: roger@dedalus.UUCP (Roger Cordes)
Newsgroups: net.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: Prolog programmers
Message-ID: <730@dedalus.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 13-May-86 06:28:42 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 13 06:28:42 1986
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	Tuesday, 13 May 1986, 6:18 a.m.

	In <309@cernvax.UUCP>, mnl@cernvax.UUCP (Mark Nelson) writes:
>	Prolog programmers must be humorless people.  After all, they use
>	:- instead of :-) or :-(

	While I regret increasing the noise-to-signal ratio of this group,
	I must offer the following as refutation, extracted from
	"Programming with P-Shell", by Newton S. Lee, as published in
	the Summer, 1986 issue of "IEEE Expert", p. 51:

		"In Prolog, it is denoted as
			a :- b1, b2, ..., bn (n>=0)
		 where the head of the clause (to the left of :-) is the
		 unnegated atom and the body (to the right of :-) consists of
		 all the negated atoms."

	Humorless, indeed!

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