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Prolog
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prolog
English
Etymology
From en fr Prolog, abbreviation of fr Programmation en Logique.
Proper noun
en programming language A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
en 2006 Patrick Blackburn; Johan Bos; Kristina Striegnitz http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse28 Learn Prolog Now! §7.1 Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called. https://web.archive.org/web/20150328054522/http://www.learnprolognow.org/lpnpage.php?pagetype=html&pageid=lpn-htmlse28 28 March 2015
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German
Pronunciation
de De-Prolog.ogg <<Germany>> (<<Berlin>>)
Noun
m,(e)s,e
prologue
Declension
m,(e)s,e
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