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From: Laws@SRI-STRIPE.ARPA (Ken Laws)
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Subject: Turbo Prolog
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For another review of Turbo Prolog see the premier issue of AI Expert.
Darryl Rubin discusses several weaknesses relative to Clocksin-and-Mellish
prologs, but is enthusiastic about the package for users who have no
experience with (i.e., preconceptions from) other prologs.  The Turbo
version is very fast, quite compact, well documented, comes with a
lengthy library of example programs, and interfaces to a sophisticated
window system and other special tools.  It could be an excellent system
for database retrieval and other straightforward tasks.  His chief
reservation was about the "subroutine call" syntax that requires
all legal arities and argument types to be predeclared and does not
permit use of comma as a reduction operator.

					-- Ken Laws
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