Paper Info
Title
Introduction to the special issue on prolog systems
Abstract
It has now been 40 years since the birth of the Prolog language and of its first implementation by A. Colmerauer and P. Roussel. Since then, a large number of Prolog systems have been implemented. While the core of the Prolog language has not changed much in these 40 years, Prolog systems have undergone an extraordinary evolution that stems from two main sources. One is the trend to extend Prolog to incorporate ideas from other language paradigms that have proved useful in real-world applications. This includes concurrency, parallelism, higher order predicates, object-oriented programming, Web interfaces, processing of large amounts of data, and flexible developer tools that enhance reliability and robustness through assertions. A second source of change is the exploration of ideas for which Prolog systems are uniquely suitable and that have led to the creation of new programming paradigms. This includes tabling, constraint logic programming, answer set programming, and probabilistic logic programming.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1017/S1471068411000524
TPLP
Field
DocType
Volume
Fifth-generation programming language,Programming language,Horn clause,Programming paradigm,Computer science,Constraint programming,Algorithm,Theoretical computer science,Prolog,Symbolic programming,Logic programming,Declarative programming
Journal
12
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-2
1471-0684
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.36
0
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
bart demoen195677.58
Maria Garcia De La Banda226920.87