Computing Dictionary
Parlog definition
Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An
AND-parallel Prolog, with
guards and
committed choice nondeterminism (
don't care nondeterminism).
Shallow backtracking only.
Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK.
See also
SPM.
(ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/Parlog.tar.Z). E-mail:
parlog@doc.ic.ac.uk.
["Parlog: A Parallel Logic Programming Language", K.L. Clark and S. Gregory, Imperial College, London, May 1983]. ("Parlog83", in which the ouput mechanism was assignment).
["Parallel Logic Programming in PARLOG, The Language and Its Implementation", S. Gregory, A-W 1987]. ("Parlog86", in which the output mechanism was unification, as in
GHC). (See
Strand).
