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The programming language Prolog was invented by Alain Colmerauer and his associates around 1970. It was a first attempt at the design of a practical programming language that would enable a programmer to specify his tasks in logic, instead of in terms of conventional programming constructs about what the machine should do when. This motivation explains the name of the programming language, for “Prolog” stands for Programming in Logic.
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Clocksin, W.F., Mellish, C.S. (1994). The Relation of Prolog to Logic. In: Programming in Prolog. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-97596-7_10
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