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- From: cdsm@doc.ic.ac.uk (Chris D S Moss)
- Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog
- Subject: Re: Prolog 1000
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- Date: 9 Nov 92 15:55:12 GMT
- References: <1992Nov3.103148.16618@news.lrz-muenchen.de>
- Organization: Department of Computing, Imperial College, University of London, UK.
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- In article <1992Nov3.103148.16618@news.lrz-muenchen.de> draxler@next6.cis.uni-muenchen.de (Christoph Draxler) writes:
- >This is just a modest proposal ...
- >
- >*** How about distributing the Prolog 1000 list as a Prolog program? ***
-
- I think there's only one problem with doing this when it is complete. That
- is the confidentiality issue; the database contains a lot of very
- useful names and addresses. We asked people to specify if they wanted
- information to be kept private, so the potential problem isn't there
- so much as with the Prolog vendors. I don't want to be party to
- charges of poaching customers! We've asked the Prolog Vendors' Group
- to adjudicate this issue and if that's cleared we'll probably make it
- available by ftp in several formats.
-
- >I recall a very nice information retrieval system called PSI by
- >Markus Fromherz, a stand-alone Prolog implementation for the Mac, which
- >could be used for this...
-
- but he hasn't submitted it to the Prolog 1000 yet!
-
- Chris Moss
-