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From: andka@IDA.LiU.SE (Andreas Kagedal)
Subject: Re: Public Domain Prolog
In-Reply-To: mcovingt@ai.uga.edu's message of 26 Sep 1994 19: 57:41 GMT
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This is the mail I send to everyone with this  kind of question, but
which I failed to mail to Christian:

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You have posted a FAQ (a Frequently Asked Question) to comp.lang.prolog!
I.e. many people ask a question similar to yours very often in this news
group. There are three regular postings that contains answers to such
questions. I have listed the `Subject:' lines here to help you look for
them. They can also be found in the World Wide Web on url:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/Groups/AI/html/faqs/lang/prolog/top.html 

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Subject: comp.lang.prolog Frequently Asked Questions
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It is posted twice a month to comp.lang.prolog, news.answers and
comp.answers .

It includes answers to the following questions. (Your are probably most
interested in 2. or 3.)

0. General information
1. What is the Association for Logic Programming?
2. Where can I get a public-domain, free Prolog for (the IBM PC,
   the Mac, Unix)?
3. What commercial systems are available?  What about systems
   available for a price from research institutions?
4. How do I get in touch with my Prolog's users' group,
   sales representative, or technical support line?
5. I think language X is better than Prolog.  What do you think?
6. My Prolog prof assigned me this problem.  Can you help
   me with it?
7. Can you suggest some books on Prolog?
8. Are there any FTP archive sites for comp.lang.prolog?
9. How can I get a copy of the draft ISO Prolog standard?
   Where can I go for more information about it?
10. How does the WAM (Warren Abstract Machine) work?  How do I
   write a WAM-based compiler or a WAM emulator?


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Subject: FAQ: Prolog Resource Guide 1/2 [Monthly posting]
Subject: FAQ: Prolog Implementations 2/2 [Monthly posting]
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These two are posted monthly (as the subject line says) to the
news groups comp.lang.prolog, comp.object.logic, news.answers and
comp.answers:


Table of Contents (Part 1):

  [1-0] Introduction
  [1-1] Sources of information about Prolog
  [1-2] FTP Archives and Other Resources
  [1-3] Prolog-related Mailing Lists
  [1-4] Books and Magazine Articles
  [1-5] The Prolog 1000 Database
  [1-6] X-Windows Interfaces
  [1-7] Is there a straight-forward way of compiling Prolog to C?
  [1-8] What is the Basic Andorra Model and AKL?

Prolog Implementations (Part 2):
  [2-1] Public Domain or Free Prolog Implementations
  [2-2] Commercial Prolog Implementations


These kind of FAQ-collection postings are very common and most
news-groups have one.

I hope this will help you!

Regards,

/Andreas Kagedal
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Andreas Kagedal                                email: andka@IDA.LIU.SE
Dep. of Computer and information science
University of Linkoping, Sweden

