12 Jan
2012
12 Jan
'12
10:19 p.m.
For people such as myself who are inordinately fascinated by Prolog, and
terribly intimidated by things like the Warren Abstract Machine, here is
a practical subset of Prolog written in the much easier to implement Forth
along with various companion articles (including one on SKI combinators).
http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4.html
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13 Jan
13 Jan
3:32 a.m.
On 13 January 2012 05:19, Cameron Kaiser <spectre at floodgap.com> wrote:
For people such as myself who are inordinately
fascinated by Prolog, and
terribly intimidated by things like the Warren Abstract Machine, here is
a practical subset of Prolog written in the much easier to implement Forth
along with various companion articles (including one on SKI combinators).
http://soton.mpeforth.com/flag/jfar/vol4.html
That is indeed very cool.
I'm confused, though: why are you intimidated by the WAM? First, you
really don't need to be using the WAM directly when you program in Prolog.
Second, even if you do decide to get involved with WAM-level stuff,
there's a very accessible explanation <http://wambook.sourceforge.net/> of
it available.
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3:43 a.m.
That is indeed very cool.
I'm confused, though: why are you intimidated by the WAM? First, you
really don't need to be using the WAM directly when you program in Prolog.
Second, even if you do decide to get involved with WAM-level stuff,
there's a very accessible explanation <http://wambook.sourceforge.net/> of
it available.
I do have that book, but the Forth implementation on that page is much more
accessible. While one certainly doesn't need to understand the WAM to write
Prolog, I like to understand my interpreters, and I've always wanted to
resurrect a Prolog on the 6502 (Micro-Prolog, and more importantly the source
to the same, seems to have disappeared in the wind).
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