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Received: from owl.CS.Arizona.EDU by cheltenham.cs.arizona.edu; Mon, 17 May 1993 07:43:10 MST
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Date: 13 May 93 10:28:52 GMT
From: pipex!zaphod.crihan.fr!univ-lyon1.fr!scsing.switch.ch!news.unige.ch!NewsWatcher!user@uunet.uu.net (Boris Borcic)
Organization: University of Geneva
Subject: Icon vs Prolog, docs, availability ?
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I have read in this group that Icon uses a backtracking
mechanism very similar to Prolog. Would a user of both
languages care to sketch Icon with Prolog as background ?
What are the most significant differences ?
What is the typical problem easily solved in the same way
in both languages? What typical problems are there, if any,
that are easy to solve in Icon but not in Prolog, and vice-versa ?
For instance, it is at times desirable to constrain the
search for further solutions in a way that depends on the
solutions already found. IMHO, the declarative leaning of Prolog's
backtracking makes this difficult and unnatural to program.
Does Icon let me do this naturally ?
Some FAQs : Is there an Icon Bible ? Internet on-line docs ?
Public domain implementations ? For what systems ?
Thanks in advance
- Boris Borcic, borbor@divsun.unige.ch