Re: Prolog and iOS : it would be OK

On 27 Mar 2014, at 17:16 , Jan Wielemaker <[email protected]> wrote:

> 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 :-(


There is the iOS application Code2Go (http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/codetogo/id382677229?mt=8) that among other languages also offers SWI-Prolog. Code2Go is an API für http://Ideone.com/. Note, however, that Code2Go offers only the very outdated version 5.06.64 of SWI-Prolog.

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