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From: daveh@phred.UUCP (Dave Hampton)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: WISDOM prolog
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Date: 25 Jan 88 19:48:06 GMT
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In article <2601@druhi.ATT.COM> kam@druhi.ATT.COM (MorrisseyKA) writes:
>Does anyone out there have WISDOM prolog, the one listed in the back of
>"The Art of Prolog"?

  After a year and a half of monthly phone calls to MIT Press,
I finally got a copy of Wisdom Prolog 3 months ago, and it is
pretty sad.  The documentation and editing capabilities are non-
existant, and I, too, have run into a number of crashes.

  I also got the disk which contains the programming examples
from the book.  It arrived a year before the language disk (and
was billed a year before the language disk, even though it
couldn't be run...).  Every example was copied (accurately, I must
admit), even the ones which don't run under Prolog (Programs 3.1, 
3.2, and 3.3, for example).

  Overall, a very disappointing purchase.  Back to Turbo Prolog, 
I guess..:-)...

Dave Hampton