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Some comments on “Pitfalls in Prolog Programming”

Published: 01 December 1986 Publication History

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In their useful article "Pitfalls in Prolog Programming", Ng and Ma [1] discuss some ways that novice programmers can be confused while learning Prolog. They suggest that the confusions result from certain properties of Prolog, in particular the way that it diverges from the "ideal" of programming in pure logic. In fact, I suggest that Ng and Ma are attributing to Prolog powers that it simply does not have, and that confusions are usually the result of the novice's misplaced confidence in his abilities to reason about programs.

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[1]
[1] K.W. Ng and W.Y. Ma. Pitfalls in Prolog Programming, SIGPLAN Notices 21(4), 75-79, April 1986.
[2]
[2] W.F. Clocksin and C.S. Mellish, Programming in Prolog, Springer-Verlag, 1981.

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cover image ACM SIGPLAN Notices
ACM SIGPLAN Notices  Volume 21, Issue 12
Dec. 1986
138 pages
ISSN:0362-1340
EISSN:1558-1160
DOI:10.1145/15042
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Association for Computing Machinery

New York, NY, United States

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Published: 01 December 1986
Published in SIGPLAN Volume 21, Issue 12

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