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From: conway@munta.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Thomas Charles CONWAY)
Subject: Re: can prolog be used for pattern matching?
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Date: Sat, 12 Nov 1994 01:35:34 GMT
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umbehrou@cc.umanitoba.ca (Mehrab Behrouzian) writes:

>Hi:
>I'm working on a problem that I have to match some 
>multidimentional data to a sample data and find
>out which one of the data is similar to the sample.
>Could I use prolog to do this?

[ Prolog is a *turing-complete_* langauge => yes. ]

Check out Bratko's Prolog text. It should give
you some idea about how easy/hard it will be
to solve your problem in Prolog.

pax
Thomas
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Thomas Conway                                           conway@cs.mu.oz.au
AD DEUM ET VINUM
