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The first and most popular logic programming (LP) language is Prolog. It is still the basis of most constraint programming languages. Prolog’s origins can be traced back to early work in automated theorem proving and planning (Fig. 4.1). Prolog was developed in the early 1970’s, first independently and then jointly by Alain Colmerauer (Marseille) and Robert Kowalski (Edinburgh). Then David Warren (London) defined the Warren Abstract Machine (WAM) that lead to an efficient implementation of Prolog. The ideas behind the WAM strongly influenced the implementation of more recent languages like Java.
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Frühwirth, T., Abdennadher, S. (2003). Logic Programming. In: Essentials of Constraint Programming. Cognitive Technologies. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-05138-2_4
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