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In the Precisionist Movement (Section 1.10), Lisp proved to be the foundation of commercially successful Xerox and Symbolics workstations [Moon, 1987]. The FGCS decision to build Prolog multiprocessor workstations appeared, to some, a deliberate policy to be different from the US but this was not the whole story. The principal application for the project was Japanese natural language processing. Their language isolates the Japanese and automatic translation would be a major benefit in global commerce. Prolog designed specifically for the needs of natural language processing seemed a good choice for the Fifth Generation.
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(1999). Metamorphosis. In: Agent-Oriented Programming. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 1630. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47938-4_3
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