From: Yacao Wang <yacaowang@...>
Date: 2006-10-15T18:30:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby and Prolog

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Actually I've been thinking of creating an auto-backtracking engine for ruby
based on the Prolog engine, because it's so much fun to play with
non-deterministic programming. But I haven't got the time to do it. Has
anyone have similar ideas or implementations?

On 15/10/06, _Kevin <kevin.olbrich@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Oct 14, 7:54 pm, "M. Edward (Ed) Borasky" <z...@cesmail.net> wrote:
> > _Kevin wrote:
> > > Anyone had any experience interfacing Prolog with Ruby?
> >
> > > _KevinWhat is it you're trying to accomplish? It seems to me, at least
> on an
> > open source platform, all you'd need to do would be to install a Prolog
> > interpreter/compiler, and then build Prolog source with Ruby and "shell
> > out" to Prolog. Is there something more "intimately interconnected" you
> > had in mind?
>
> Probably not.  I anticipate that I may need to interface with a
> particular Prolog application that a colleague has developed, and since
> the extent of my knowlege of prolog consists mostly of how to spell it,
> I thought I might enquire about how well it plays with ruby.
>
> Shelling out might be all I need.
>
> Thanks Ed.
>
> _Kevin
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-- 
Alex

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