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- From: mmh@cs.qmw.ac.uk (Matthew Huntbach)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
- Subject: Re: Prolog Debuggers
- Message-ID: <1992Nov9.093324.11857@dcs.qmw.ac.uk>
- Date: 9 Nov 92 09:33:24 GMT
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- From: roth@cs.wisc.edu (Bill Roth)
- >Is there such a thing as a Prolog "debugger"? I'm doing work right now in
- >building a rule-based debugger for a Prolog-based database language,
- >and I was wondering if anything like this had been done before.
- >
- >If anyone has seen anything like a prolog rule debugger, could you
- >please send me a reference?
-
- There is a lot of work on Prolog debuggers. I think most of the
- big conferences on logic programming have a paper or two on
- debugging. Besides the usual trace-based debugging techniques,
- Prolog also enables the technique of "declarative debugging"
- which attempts to bring a logical automated approach to
- debugging. The classic reference to this is E.Shapiro's thesis
- "Algorithmic Program Debugging", published by MIT press. My own
- thesis is also on this subject (unpublished, but copies
- available on request).
-
- Matthew Huntbach
- Dept. of Computer Science
- Queen Mary and Westfield College
- Mile End Road
- London E1 4NS, UK
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- email: mmh@dcs.qmw.ac.uk
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