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From: gooley@uicsl.UUCP
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Subject: Re: looking for Prolog
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Date: Tue, 3-Jun-86 10:46:00 EDT
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Nf-From: uicsl.UUCP!gooley    Jun  3 09:46:00 1986


UNSW Prolog is *not* a variant of C-Prolog.  It was developed independently,
has a slightly different syntax, behaves quite differently in some situations,
does not try to fake a tagged architecture, lacks many bells and whistles,
and (according to a letter in a recent issue of "Computer Architecture News"
[the ACM SIGARCH bulletin]) is about half as fast when run on a VAX-11/780.
Its chief advantages are simplicity, modularity (relatively easy to modify
for instrumentation, except that the source lacks comments), and portability.
It's my opinion that it will run on any 32-bit machine under UNIX with only
trivial changes, and, with a little work, on anything that has a C compiler
(I ported it to our Gould PN9050 and had only to change a few pathnames).

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