prolog

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9
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12
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6

Definition of prolog

3 senses · 3 parts of speech · etymology included

name

  1. A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
    “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.”
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name

  1. A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
    “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.”

noun

  1. (US, alt-of, uncommon)Uncommon spelling of prologue.

verb

  1. (US, alt-of, uncommon)Uncommon spelling of prologue.

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Etymology

From French Prolog, abbreviation of Programmation en Logique.

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