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Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standard
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Programming in Prolog: Using the ISO Standardby W.F. Clocksin and C.S. Mellish
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Excellent resource on the Prolog programming language, March 14, 2001 Reviewer:Andrew McCaffrey "The Grumpy Young Man" (Satellite of Love, Maryland) - This is an extreme valuable book on the Prolog programming language that every computer science person should own. Prolog itself is actually a fairly simple language to learn, albeit slightly obscure. It's reputation for complexity comes from its non-standard implementation, but if you don't enter into it expecting it to look and behave like other languages then you should be all right. Once you get past the mathematics and logic, you should be able to get your mind working in that particular direction. This book is a very handy guide for getting the programmer into the Prolog mindset as well as bringing one up to speed on all the (sometimes very confused) syntax. This book, like Prolog itself, is not for the beginning programmer. If you have a good background in logic or mathematics, then you should find this book to be very rewarding.
ACM Computing Reviews
" A classic [that] should be in the collection and within easy reach of any serious Prolog programmer[it] is, and probably always will be, the standard." --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Book Description
Originally published in 1981, this was the first textbook on programming in the Prolog language and is still the definitive introductory text on Prolog. Though many Prolog textbooks have been published since, this one has withstood the test of time because of its comprehensiveness, tutorial approach, and emphasis on general programming applications. Prolog has continued to attract a great deal of interest in the computer science community, and has turned out to be a basis for an important new generation of programming languages and systems for Artificial Intelligence. Since the previous edition of programming in Prolog, the language has been standardised by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and this book has been updated accordingly. The authors have also introduced some new material, clarified some explanations, corrected a number of minor errors, and removed appendices about Prolog systems that are now obsolete.
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