Re: waving the flag

Nice work Anne,

We SWI-Prolog users need to spread the word a bit more. This is a very
good initiative.

Cheers!,
Wouter.

On Thu, Apr 3, 2014 at 6:30 AM, Anne Ogborn <[email protected]> wrote:
> http://www.oscon.com/oscon2014/user/proposal/status/34273
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> I'm talking about swipl at OSCON in July
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> SWI-Prolog for the Real World
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> Description
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> Savvy functional programmers are discovering logic programming, and SWI-Prolog's vast niftiness. Come watch Annie run her debugger in reverse, directly execute syntax specifications, and let the computer figure out it's own darn execution strategy. Be amazed as Annie constrains variables and shrinks her APIs. Ooh and Aah at the many libraries, nifty web framework and clean environment.
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> Abstract
> Most programmers encounter Prolog in a programming languages survey course, where the emphasis is on toy logic puzzles. Unfortunately, this introduction perpetuates a stereotype of Prolog as a special purpose inference engine rather than what it is, a powerful general purpose programming language well adapted to agile programming.
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>  SWI-Prolog is a solid, reliable programming environment used in many mission critical high volume applications. This talk will concentrate first on concrete advantages of logic languages, and then on features of SWI-Prolog that would make it a great programming environment even if not for the logic programming advantage.
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>  Annie will demonstrate many of SWI-Prolog's nifty features, including parsing as fundamental operation, constraint programming, and the metanifty web framework.
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