Re: Prolog and iOS : it would be OK

On 03/27/2014 01:16 AM, Richard A. O'Keefe wrote:
> slidetocode.com offers
>   - Raskell : basically a port of Hugs to the iPad (Haskell)
>   - Lisping : originally a vi-ish editor for Scheme and Clojure
>     but now includes TinyScheme interpreter, and the author is
>     thinking of adding a Clojure (subset) interpreter.
>
> Dmitry Kovba http://www.dmitry-kovba.com
> offers an amazing bunch of "XYZZY Programming Language" apps
> which actually do compilation and running remotely, which
> neatly sidesteps any problems with adding new code to an iOS app.
>
> Pharo Smalltalk runs on the iPad.  See
> http://www.pharo-project.org/about/screenshots
> As I understand it, the bytecode system is OK,
> but the JIT would not be allowed even if it did
> work for ARM.
>
> Quicksilver Smalltalk sits on top of Javascript so it
> can run in Safari, for example.  There is also something
> called U8 (u8.smalltalking.net) which I've had little
> luck learning about.
>
> Pythonista http://omz-software.com/pythonista/
> provides a Python IDE on iOS.  It's in the App Store.
>
> So there is ample precedent for interpreted/emulated
> languages on iOS devices.  SWI Prolog should fit right in.

Good news.  The basic system should build.  Matt Lilley sent
a mail on how to compile the core system.  Carlo Capelli wrote
the Qt console.  I guess that most of the extensions packs will
compile as well.  The only exception is xpce, which means
no gui tools :-(  I think that in the future all these tools
will become web-based, which would work fine one iOS.  That
is quite a big project though :-(

	Cheers --- Jan