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The key concepts of the parallel logic programming language PARLOG are introduced by comparing the language with Prolog. Some familiarity with Prolog and the concept of logic programming is assumed. Two major application areas of PARLOG, systems programming and object oriented programming are illustrated. Other applications are briefly surveyed. Some comparison is made between PARLOG and the related parallel logic languages Concurrent Prolog and GHC.
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Clark, K.L. (1987). PARLOG: The language and its applications. In: de Bakker, J.W., Nijman, A.J., Treleaven, P.C. (eds) PARLE Parallel Architectures and Languages Europe. PARLE 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 259. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-17945-3_2
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