Prolog in 10 figures

  • Authors:
  • Alain Colmerauer

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • Communications of the ACM
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

In the fall of 1981, a Japanese report officially initiated the quest for fifth-generation computers that would encompass the functions of knowledge processing and artificial intelligence. The conceptual underpinnings behind Prolog—Japan's language of choice for these activities—are presented here in a way that suggests why Prolog or a similar language might be considered a model for designing the computers of the future.