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From: mdf0@bunny.UUCP (Mark Feblowitz)
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Subject: Re: Suggestions for Course
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Date: Mon, 26-Oct-87 15:30:31 EST
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Posted: Mon Oct 26 15:30:31 1987
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With regard to the use of Turbo Prolog, I would like to make bring up the 
standard argument against "experience polution." The notion that an 
educational tool can afford to be non-standard or inferior because it is 
"only for beginners" assumes that the beginner will be able to reformulate 
his/her attitudes or habits when the appropriate time arrives. 

For this reason, I recommend the use of a Prolog implementation that is 
more compatible with C&M Prolog. My favorite Prolog for the PC is
Arity Prolog. It is what I consider to be a production quality Prolog
development environment. It:

	is FAST, 
	links to assembly code or C
	has a full virtual memory system
	can run either compiled or interpreted
	...

The compiler comes with a "lint" facility for static precompilation analysis
of typical Prolog programming errors.

There is a low-end interpreter for the beginner, and I believe that there
are educational discounts available (contact Arity Prolog to verify this).

Although I have encountered a few bugs, the folks at Arity have been
quite supportive in fixing these bugs.

I am looking forward to their upcoming version 5, which aparently has 
an integrated editor and enhanced user-interface capabilities, 
among other things.

Arity Prolog is located in Concord, MA, (617) 371-1243.

I am NOT a representative of, nor do I have any financial
interest in Arity Corp. I am merely a satisfied user of Arity Prolog. 


Mark Feblowitz   GTE Laboratories, Inc., 40 Sylvan Rd.  Waltham, MA 02254
						(617) 466-2947
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Mark Feblowitz   GTE Laboratories, Inc., 40 Sylvan Rd.  Waltham, MA 02254
						(617) 466-2947
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