Prolog

See also: prolog

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] French: Abbreviation of Programmation en Logique.

Proper noun

Prolog

1. (computing) A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
   • 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, 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.