Prolog for applications programming

  • Authors:
  • W. G. Wilson

  • Affiliations:
  • Thomas J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York

  • Venue:
  • IBM Systems Journal
  • Year:
  • 1986

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Abstract

This paper discusses the problems and benefits of using the Prolog language to write application programs. Much attention is currently focused on expert-systems shells, which play a role in artificial intelligenc(AI) systems similar to that of application generators in more conventional applications. The Prolog programming language embodies many of the features found in these shells, while providing a relatively general and complete programming language. MVS performance tuning is used as an application that typifies a broad class of applications suitable for implementation in this language. Some of the difficulties that had to be overcome to use the language are presented, with their solutions.