SWI-Prolog 6.3.4 Reference Manual
Jan
Wielemaker Department of Computer Science VU University Amsterdam De
Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV Amsterdam
Human-Computer Studies (HCS, formerly SWI) Kruislaan 419, 1098 VA Amsterdam The
Netherlands
Abstract
SWI-Prolog is a comprehensive
and portable implementation of the Prolog programming language.
SWI-Prolog aims to be a robust and scalable implementation supporting a
wide range of applications. In particular, it ships with a wide range of
interface libraries, providing interfaces to other languages, databases,
graphics and networking. It provides extensive support for managing
HTML/SGML/XML and RDF documents. The system is particularly suited for
server applications due to robust support for multi threading and HTTP
server libraries. SWI-Prolog is designed in the `Edinburgh tradition'.
In addition to the ISO Prolog standard it is largely compatible to
Quintus, SICStus and YAP Prolog. SWI-Prolog provides a compatibility
framework developed in cooperation with YAP and instantiated for YAP,
SICStus and IF/Prolog. SWI-Prolog aims at providing a good development
environment, including extensive editor support, graphical source-level
debugger, autoloading and `make' facility and much more. SWI-Prolog
editor and the PDT plugin for Eclipse provide alternative environments.
This document gives an overview of the features, system limits and
built-in predicates.
About this document
This manual is written and maintained using LaTeX . The LaTeX source is
included in the source distribution of SWI-Prolog. The manual is
converted into HTML using a converter distributed with the SWI-Prolog
sources. From the same source we generate the plain-text version and
index used by the online help system (located in the file MANUAL
in the library directory) as well as the PDF version. Sources, binaries
and documentation can be downloaded from the SWI-Prolog
download page. The SWI-Prolog project home page is located
here
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