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From: ok@quintus.uucp (Richard A. O'Keefe)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
Subject: Re: !/metacall/metainterpreter
Message-ID: <421@quintus.UUCP>
Date: 17 Sep 88 06:27:23 GMT
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In article <623@ecrcvax.UUCP> bruno@ecrcvax.UUCP (Bruno Poterie) writes:
>First point: I consider that the war O'Keefe/Demoen --> Quintus/BIM is going
>	somehow outside of control, and that the meta-interpreter looks more
>	like an innocent hostage, or like a pretext, or both.  So why do you
>	not choose a place and a time (say, Hyde Park, 1st November, 5 am),
>	pick up 4 of us as witnesses, and try to solve it with some sword?
>	I think it is time to stop and cool the thing down, or the net will
>	burn soon :-)

Funny, I thought the attack was over.  You are throwing oil on a dying
fire, not troubled waters!  I have no desire to attack Demoen, nor is
there any dissension between Quintus-the-company and BIM-the-company.
As for Quintus-Prolog-the-language and BIM-Prolog-the-language, the
official Quintus viewpoint is "probeat emptor"(*), and no doubt BIM have
the same justified confidence in their product.

Indeed, I owe Demoen a debt of gratitude:  as a result of the publicity
he has given my tutorial in this newsgroup I have had several enquiries
about its availability.  The answer is that I have submitted it to a
publisher as a work in progress; as for the version which was around at
the conference, you'll have to ask the conference organisers.

(*) "Let (the) buyer try (it)".