Work

The birth of Prolog

Year: 1993

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: The programming language, Prolog, was born of a project aimed not at producing a programming language but at processing natural languages; in this case, French. The project gave rise to a preliminary version of Prolog at the end of 1971 and a more definitive version at the end of 1972. This article gives the history of this project and describes in detail the preliminary and then the final versions of Prolog. The authors also felt it appropriate to describe the Q-systems since it was a language which played a prominent part in Prolog's genesis.

Source: ACM SIGPLAN conference on History of Programming Languages

DOI: 10.1145/154766.155362

Authors: Alain Colmerauer, Philippe Roussel

Language: English

Topic: Logic, programming, and type systems

Subfield: Software

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: bronze

OpenAlex ID: W1969456304

FWCI: 1.961

Cites: 22

Cited by: 118

Related to: 10