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Prolog is the most commonly used logic programming language. It supports non-deterministic programming through backtracking and pattern matching through unification.
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Harry Potter's Family Tree Database
As an assignment for a class, I have made a small Harry Potter family tree in Prolog. It compiles into a self-contained executable that can be run straight from the command line on Linux machines. ...
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Movie Knowledgebase
I have had an assignment to construct a movie knowledgebase and ten specified queries in Prolog. This is my first ever Prolog program, so I would appreciate any pointers toward how I could improve.
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CLP(FD) labeling on possibly infinite domains
As a follow-up to this SO question, I implemented, for my Prolog-based language Brachylog, my own labeling predicate brachylog_equals/2 which is not guaranteed to ...
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Aggregate cost for a directed graph in Prolog
I've come up with a simple graph traversal algorithm to calculate the aggregated cost of a directed graph or its subgraphs. Given a directed graph, the code visits all reachable nodes and sums up the ...
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Making a logic Prolog compiler simpler with Java
Good morning!
I'm student in philosophy taking some course in programing in order to have a better understanding of artificial intelligence.
I'm actually doing my own Prolog compiler just like SWISH ...
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Prolog parser written in Haskell
I am writing a very simple Prolog intepreter in Haskell. It's a class assignment and I really want to do it right.
I was able to (quite quickly) write a parser for the language. Today I borrowed a ...
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Prolog predicate for adjacency of integers with all signatures and no spurious choice points
I want to create a predicate nearby(X,Y) which represents "X and Y are integers 1 apart from each other" and fully satisfies:
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Monkey-banana problem in Prolog
The monkey-banana problem: There many variations to this problem, but the basic premise is that a monkey is in a room with a banana and
a chair, and the monkey cannot reach the banana until he moves ...
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cat program in Prolog
In order to learn Prolog, I have implemented the cat command in Prolog. I want to know if the code is idiomatic and what could be improved.
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meta predicates fixedpoint/3 and fixedpointlist/3
What about the following meta-predicate "fixed point"?
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map + foldl = mapfoldl
I was wondering... In the standard library of some Prolog systems, there are meta-predicates like maplist and foldl.
In general,...
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Higher-order Prolog predicates combine/3 and reduce/3
I'm trying to find useful versatile meta-predicates that are different from the vanilla ones offered currently by library(apply).
How about the following two: <...
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SICP Exercise 1.3: Sum of squares of two largest numbers out of three, Prolog Version
The exercise 1.3 of the book Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs asks the following:
Exercise 1.3. Define a procedure that takes three numbers as arguments and returns the sum of the ...
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Repeated string concatenation
I've been looking for a way to have a predicate that establishes that all elements of a list are substrings delimited by a given string. Analogues in other languages include: ...
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Adding elements in two lists as numbers
The problem is adding two lists as numbers L1 = [1,9,9] and L2 = [0,9,9]:
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Binary Digits to ASCII Characters
I wrote this code, as a novice a to Prolog, for a challenge posted on /r/DailyProgrammer. The formal description of this challenge, as presented in the prompt reads:
Input description
On ...
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English phrases, prime numbers, pseudo random data and encryption source code check
This code uses a DCG and pairs phrases into near-English sentences. If anyone is familiar with Prolog, I'm wondering how I can use the code as an encryption method by hiding data and replacing it ...
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Iterating towards a goal
I'm pretty proud of the following, but would welcome any comments from experts:
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Implementing an open/close function in Prolog
I'm going through the Adventure in Prolog tutorial and I'm trying to implement an open/close rule for each of the doors I have.
Add an open/closed status for each of the doors. Write open and close ...
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“Hello world!” in Prolog
I have just written the following "hello world" program in Prolog. Although it is as simple as it can be, I would like your feedback as Prolog is very new to me.
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Sample n items without replacement in Prolog
I have the following Prolog code which samples n items from a list without replacement:
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Implementing a zipwithindex predicate in prolog
I want to implement a predicate of the form:
zipwithindex(?List1, ?List2)
which is true when the elements of List2 are the ...
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Prolog Sudoku solver taking too long
I was wondering if there's any way I can improve this code's execution. I want to use it on a 9*9 grid, but it takes too long to solve this as 4*4. This program takes as input a 4*4 matrix ...
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Complete graph traversal algorithm in Prolog
Given a table, I want to explore all possible transition between the elements in the table.
ex: for a table with size 3 [0,1,2], the output of the algorithm should be 0->1, 1->0, 0->2, 2->1, 1->2, 2->...
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Range of all variables in List in Prolog
I have a list in Prolog like this:
Puzzle = [ A1, A2, A3,
B1, B2, B3,
C1, C2, C3 ].
And I want every variable in the list to be a number ...
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Bibtex reader using Prolog
I am trying to learn Prolog, and wrote a bibtex reader using GNU Prolog.
I would like some feedback on my code in terms of: the way I write Prolog, and how it can be improved.
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