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April 30, 2008

Logtalk 2.31.5 Released

Posted: 2008-04-30 06:21:21
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Logtalk 2.31.5 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: support for checking arithmetic expressions for calls to non-portable functions, updated implementation of the thread/1 built-in predicate, new multi-threading examples, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

April 17, 2008

SWI-Prolog 5.6.54 Released

Posted: 2008-04-17 06:21:41
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SWI-Prolog 5.6.54 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: portability to big-endian machines, and a CHR fix.

April 16, 2008

SWI-Prolog 5.6.53 Released

Posted: 2008-04-16 06:15:17
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SWI-Prolog 5.6.53 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: performance improvements, a new at_exit(:Goal) option for threads, hash_term/2 changes, and more.

February 26, 2008

SWI-Prolog 5.6.51 Released

Posted: 2008-02-26 06:19:42
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SWI-Prolog 5.6.51 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: CHR and clp(fd) updates, a new toplevel prompting style, documentation updates, bug fixes, and other changes.

February 22, 2008

Logtalk 2.31.4 Released

Posted: 2008-02-22 06:17:01
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Logtalk 2.31.4 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved multi-threading support, new multi-threading examples, bug fixes, and other changes.

February 02, 2008

SWI-Prolog 5.6.50 Released

Posted: 2008-02-02 21:53:08
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SWI-Prolog 5.6.50 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: the addition of subsumes/2 and subsumes_chk/2 as new builtins, the addition of library(aggregate), the addition of map_list_to_pairs/3 to library(pairs), the addition of min_list/2 and max_list/2 to library(lists), better checking of DCG handling, the addition of rexport/[1,2], plus other changes.

January 29, 2008

Logtalk 2.31.3 Released

Posted: 2008-01-29 20:35:45
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Logtalk 2.31.3 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved support for the encoding/1 directive, improved Quintus Prolog integration, updated installer and integration scripts for detecting outdated Logtalk user data folders, and other changes.

January 21, 2008

Logtalk 2.31.2 Released

Posted: 2008-01-21 06:19:05
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Logtalk 2.31.2 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: updated support for the encoding/1 directive, compatibility with CxProlog 0.96.3 and SICStus Prolog 4.0, and improved support for YAP and SWI-Prolog.

January 16, 2008

Planet Prolog Announced

Posted: 2008-01-16 06:23:34
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Planet Prolog has been announced. It is a blog aggregator drawing from blogs that discuss Prolog and logic programming.

January 05, 2008

Logtalk 2.31.0 Released

Posted: 2008-01-05 22:22:10
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Logtalk 2.31.0 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: new category functionality; revamped compiler hooks support; a new built-in protocol for term and goal expansion predicates; new and updated examples; updated support for B-Prolog, CxProlog, K-Prolog, XSB and YAP.

November 19, 2007

SWI-Prolog 5.6.47 Released

Posted: 2007-11-19 22:12:00
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SWI-Prolog 5.6.47 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: new partition/4,5, append/2, include/3, exclude/3, and merge_options/3 library predicates; documentation updates; bug fixes; and other changes.

November 11, 2007

Logtalk 2.30.8 Released

Posted: 2007-11-11 23:03:00
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Logtalk 2.30.8 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes a fix for a bug in the compilation of synchronized predicates on single-threaded Prolog compilers.

October 20, 2007

Logtalk 2.30.6 Released

Posted: 2007-10-20 23:04:00
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Logtalk 2.30.6 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved multithreading support, improved Unicode support, the renaming of several compiler options for clarity, and other changes.

September 20, 2007

Logtalk 2.30.5 Released

Posted: 2007-09-20 22:13:00
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Logtalk 2.30.5 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved multithreading support, documentation updates, and other changes.

August 30, 2007

XSB 3.1 Released

Posted: 2007-08-30 22:05:00
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XSB 3.1 has been released. XSB is a Prolog dialect and implementation.

This release includes: support for 64-bit compilation, incremental tabling, improved multithreading support, improved interfacing with C, better memory management for tables, improved ISO-compliant error handling, and more.

August 22, 2007

Logtalk 2.30.4 Released

Posted: 2007-08-22 22:21:00
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Logtalk 2.30.4 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: preliminary support for unit tests, new and updated examples, updated configuration files for Qu-Prolog and XSB, and other changes.

August 02, 2007

SWI-Prolog 5.6.38 Released

Posted: 2007-08-02 22:18:00
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SWI-Prolog 5.6.38 has been released. SWI-Prolog is a portable, open source Prolog implementation.

This release includes: support for long command line options, documentation updates, improved overflow handling, memory leak fixes, plus other changes and bug fixes.

July 09, 2007

Logtalk 2.30.3 Released

Posted: 2007-07-09 21:27:00
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Logtalk 2.30.3 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes improved support for multithreaded programming.

July 06, 2007

plc Announced

Posted: 2007-07-06 22:20:00
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plc has been announced. It is a proof-of-concept Prolog compiler that emits native binaries, built as a front-end for the OCaml compiler.

June 25, 2007

Logtalk 2.30.2 Released

Posted: 2007-06-25 21:42:00
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Logtalk 2.30.2 has been released. Logtalk is an object-oriented extension to Prolog.

This release includes: improved compiler error checking, new and revamped examples, bug fixes, and other changes.