Prolog

Declarative logic programming language developed in France in the latter half of the 1960's and early 70, name is a shortening of "PROgrammation en LOGique" or "Programming in Logic". Unique syntax, derivatives include primarily constraint logic programming languages such as Prolog IV and ECLiPSE but also hybrids such as the strongly typed Mercury and Visual Prolog and even more alien systems such as Erlang.

A list of OS/2 implementations of Prolog

• Arity Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• IBM PROLOG for OS/2 - 16 bit only - Commercial - Discontinued
• IBM SAA AD/Cycle Prolog/2 - Commercial - Discontinued
• PDC Prolog- Commercial - Discontinued
• PMPro Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• Prolog II+ - Commercial - Discontinued
• Quintus Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• SICStus Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• SWI-Prolog - Open Source - Discontinued
• Visual Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued

A list of DOS implementations of Prolog

• ALS Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued.
• Amzi! Prolog+Logic Server - Commercial - Discontinued.
• Aquarius Prolog - Open/Closed source - Discontinued.
• Arity Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued.
• Beta-Prolog - Open Source - Discontinued.
• BinProlog - Open source commercial software - Discontinued.
• Boizumault Prolog - Open Source - Discontinued.
• ESL Prolog-2 - Commercial - Discontinued
• cu-Prolog - Open Source - Discontinued
• LPA Prolog - Commercial - Current
• Micro-Prolog- Commercial - Discontinued
• MR Prolog- Commercial - Discontinued
• PDC Prolog- Commercial - Discontinued
• Prolog II- Commercial - Discontinued
• Prolog III- Commercial - Discontinued
• Prolog V- Commercial - Discontinued
• Prolog-86+- Commercial - Discontinued
• Public Domain Prolog - Freeware - Discontinued
• Quintus Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• SICStus Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• Stony Brook Prolog - Aka sbprolog - Open source - Discontinued
• Turbo Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• VML Prolog- Commercial - Discontinued

A list of Prolog implementations that run under WinOS/2

• ALS Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• Amzi! Logic Explorer - Freeware - Discontinued.
• Amzi! Prolog+Logic Server - Commercial - Discontinued
• Arity Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued
• IF/Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued - Contraint ver.
• LPA Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued - Versions up to 4.1 run with Win32s
• Prolog IV- Commercial - Discontinued
• Visual Prolog - Commercial - Discontinued

A list of Prolog implementations that run under Java

• CKI-Prolog - Open Source - Discontinued
• GNU Prolog for Java - Open Source - Current
• JavaLog - Open Source - Discontinued
• Jekejeke Prolog - Commercial - Current.
• Jinni Prolog - Open Source - Discontinued
• JIProlog - Commercial - Current.
• jLog - Open Source - Current.
• jTrolog - Open Source - Current.
• Kernel Prolog - Subset - Open Source - Discontinued
• Mandarax - Prolog variant, not fully compatible - Open Source - Current
• Prolog Café - Interpreter and translator - Open Source - Discontinued
• Prolog4J - Open Source - Discontinued
• Prova - Prolog variant, not fully compatible - Open Source - Current
• Styla - Requires Scala - Open Source - Current
• tuProlog - Open Source - Current
• W-Prolog - Open Source - Discontinued

A list of Prolog implementations in JavaScript

• Prolog in JavaScript - Note sub-set, split into a few pages - Open Source - Current.
• Yield Prolog - Sub-set - Open Source - Discontinued.

Publications

• Patrice Boizumault: Prolog: l'implantation - 1988 - ISBN: 2225814791
• Patrice Boizumault: The Implementation of Prolog- Tranlated by Ara M. Djamboulian and Jamal Fattouh - 1993/2014 - ISBN: 9780691609393

Links

• Boizumault Prolog Archive on Github - Contains the example Prolog implementations from his book (above)

USENET

• comp.lang.prolog - Go to the Google groups version if you are in any way newsgroup challenged.

Prolog history

Invented in Marseilles, France in 1972 by Alain Colmerauer and Philippe Rousse, the system is a descendant of a natural language machine translation system called Q-systems that Colmerauer started developing in 1968, but prior and parallel to that he alongside Rousse and others connected to the birth of Prolog such as Jean Trudel and Robert Pasero had participated in the "Traduction Automatique de l’Université de Montréal" project in Canada. Initially implemented on an IBM System/360 using Wirth's Algol-W and PL/360.