The Prolog III programming language extends Prolog by redefining the fundamental process at its heart: unification. This article presents the specifications of this new language and illustrates its capabilities.
Alain Colmerauer
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In the fall of 1981, a Japanese report officially initiated the quest for fifth-generation computers that would encompass the functions of knowledge processing and artificial intelligence. The conceptual underpinnings behind Prolog—Japan's language of choice for these activities—are presented here in a way that suggests why Prolog or a similar language might be considered a model for designing the computers of the future.
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