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- "Intro"
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- The digest may be seen as a venture into Prolog without the
- express need for a text book. Practiced Prolog users can just use
- this clue processor as a diversion. (The latter group will spot
- that imported utilities, some perhaps barely noticed previously,
- have been employed.
- The digest will take you into the Udunit "Corsair". Through its
- several episodes it traces the destiny of valuable jewelry stolen
- in a coup on the "SS Corsair". For the person who is not already a
- Prolog buff the logic problems involved lend themselves readily in
- the assimilation of Prolog.
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- Other comments.
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- The logic employed in the Udunit episodes, and in the ad hoc
- routines used for their solution, is definitely not intended to tax
- the person who has only recently arrived at Prolog.
- Sooner or later it will be seen that it is possible to put together
- Prolog utilities that will produce a solution from clues of a
- different order of difficulty. An example "All at sea" requiring a
- little more lateral thinking is due to "Logic Problems" (BEAP) Ltd.
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- Note that Prolog Digest is not intended as a disciplined approach
- to Prolog. That is best left to the text book. Here is a method of
- inveigling the newcomer to Prolog with the progress of an Udunit,
- and at the same time disclosing the resources that Prolog can
- provide for its solution.
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- Read, "O1_The Plot".
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