Re: Prolog books in various languages?

Hello,

this does not answer Richard's original question, but I think it puts
the problem in perspective.

My experience with translations of technical literature is limited to
Bulgarian and German. Bulgarian texts are bad to the point of being
useless, but there are only about 8 million people speaking the
language so probably the effort is not worth it.

However, even German translations of English books, if at all
available, are notably worse than original German texts on the same
topic. At the same time, already about 10 years ago having a working
knowledge of English was not a requirement to study computer science,
but at least 2 out of 3 books necessary to make it through were only
available in English. Discrete Mathematics was probably the only broad
topic with very good German books available.

The Chinese colleagues that work with me also confirmed: there are no
good Chinese texts in the natural sciences and computer science. The
"good" people speak good enough English, and don't want to waste their
time on writing in Chinese. Translations exists, and while the
language used is fine, the contents are often misrepresented, so
Chinese people try to stay away from translations if they can.


On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 6:13 AM, 黃耀賢 (Yau-Hsien Huang)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> hi,
> Prolog books in Chinese may be hard to read, because syntax and semantics
> of Chinese is not so clear as what of English.
>
> BTW, I've pick a classic logic book in Chinese from local library in Taiwan
> but the book is shit. :D
>
> I would like to introduce Prolog books in English to any Chinese.
>
> BR
>
>
>
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:17 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> I've been getting requests for help with Prolog from someone Chinese.
>> This has been frustrating, because his questions are being translated
>> into English words, but I'm not understanding what he means much of
>> the time.
>>
>> Can anyone recommend any good Prolog books in Chinese,
>> so that I can in good conscience say "go read"?
>>
>> Visual Prolog have a list of Prolog books (including a couple about
>> Visual Prolog in Chinese), from which The Craft of Prolog is absent.
>> So that can't be a good list (:-) (:-) (:-).
>>
>> Maybe the answers could be added to http://www.swi-prolog.org/Links.html
>> or maybe http://www.swi-prolog.org/FAQ/PrologReading.html
>>
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