SWI-Prolog

SWI-Prolog is neither a commercial Prolog system nor a purely academic enterprise, but increasingly a community project. The core system has been shaped to its current form while being used as a tool for building research prototypes, primarily for knowledge-intensive and interactive systems. Communi...

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Published in:Theory and practice of logic programming Vol. 12; no. 1-2; pp. 67 - 96
Main Authors: WIELEMAKER, JAN, SCHRIJVERS, TOM, TRISKA, MARKUS, LAGER, TORBJÖRN
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK Cambridge University Press 01.01.2012
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ISSN:1471-0684, 1475-3081
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Summary:SWI-Prolog is neither a commercial Prolog system nor a purely academic enterprise, but increasingly a community project. The core system has been shaped to its current form while being used as a tool for building research prototypes, primarily for knowledge-intensive and interactive systems. Community contributions have added several interfaces and the constraint (CLP) libraries. Commercial involvement has created the initial garbage collector, added several interfaces and two development tools: PlDoc (a literate programming documentation system) and PlUnit (a unit testing environment). In this article, we present SWI-Prolog as an integrating tool, supporting a wide range of ideas developed in the Prolog community and acting as glue between foreign resources. This article itself is the glue between technical articles on SWI-Prolog, providing context and experience in applying them over a longer period.
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ISSN:1471-0684
1475-3081
DOI:10.1017/S1471068411000494