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- From: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Michael Meskes)
- Subject: Re: Help on problem needed!
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- Date: 27 Aug 92 12:02:11 GMT
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- After all the discussion I started with my question on IF...THEN...ELSE in
- Prolog without using the Cut I think I should give all of you some more
- information.
-
- I don't like you all to think I can't do my homework myself. But this problem
- I posted isn`t my homework. I do not have any experience in programming Prolog
- and, to be honest, I'm also not interested in it, too. The only thing I'm
- interested in is pure first-order-logic with functional symbols. I only thought
- of Prolog to test the expressive power of this pure logic, in which I'm
- interested in as a side effect. It's not the main topic I'm working on.
- You can regard it as one very interesting example used in my work.
-
- If it seems to be such a stupid question that some of you thought of a student
- searching for someone to do his homework, why isn't there such an easy answer?
- All the answers are quite interesting but the don't solve the problem.
- As far as I know Prolog is turing-complete and the proofs I know don't use
- the Cut. So why isn't it possible to solve this problem im Prolog?
-
- If you still think I want you to do my homework try not to answer. Perhaps
- some of you are friendly enough to do though. But remember the predicate a
- isn't defined only using built-in comparisons like <.
-
- Michael
-
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- Michael Meskes, Lehrstuhl fuer angewandte Mathematik insb. Informatik,
- RWTH-Aachen, Ahornstr. 55, D-W-5100 Aachen
- Email: meskes@ulysses.informatik.rwth-aachen.de
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