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From: zdhm06@satchmo.uucp (Donald H. Mitchell)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.smalltalk
Subject: Re: Prolog in Smalltalk
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Date: 31 Mar 89 22:45:24 GMT
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In article <675@dutrun.UUCP> winfwrd@dutrun.UUCP (Paul van der Weerd) writes:
>
>Digitalk enclosed a Prolog interpreter with their Smalltalk/V package for the 
>IBM-PC. Since I'm not an experienced Prolog user, I would like to hear some 
>opinions about this particular Prolog implementation. 

If you just want to play around and learn alittle, it may be ok;
however, its syntax is non-standard, it does not support even all of
Clocksin and Mellish (C&M) let alone the standard extensions (bag_of,
set_of, member, ...), and it is VERY slow and memory intensive.

>... right now we are considering converting Prolog-St/V to 
>Prolog-St-80 (or has anyone done this already?).

Hum, isn't that violation of copyright or intellectual property rights?

>Paul van der Weerd
>Delft University of Technology



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