SWI-Prolog

SWI-Prolog
Original author(s) Jan Wielemaker
Developer(s) Jan Wielemaker, Anjo Anjewierden, etc
Initial release 1987 (1987)
Stable release
7.6.4 / 12 January 2018 (2018-01-12)
Preview release
7.7.19 / 26 August 2018 (2018-08-26)
Written in C, Prolog
Operating system Cross-platform
Available in English
Type Logic programming
License Simplified BSD, LGPL prior to version 7.3.33
Website swi-prolog.org

SWI-Prolog is a free implementation of the programming language Prolog, commonly used for teaching and semantic web applications. It has a rich set of features, libraries for constraint logic programming, multithreading, unit testing, GUI, interfacing to Java, ODBC and others, literate programming, a web server, SGML, RDF, RDFS, developer tools (including an IDE with a GUI debugger and GUI profiler), and extensive documentation.

SWI-Prolog runs on Unix, Windows, Macintosh and Linux platforms.

SWI-Prolog has been under continuous development since 1987. Its main author is Jan Wielemaker.

The name SWI is derived from Sociaal-Wetenschappelijke Informatica ("Social Science Informatics"), the former name of the group at the University of Amsterdam, where Wielemaker is employed. The name of this group has changed to HCS (Human-Computer Studies).

Web Framework

SWI-Prolog installs with a web framework based on definite clause grammars.[1]

Distributed Computing

Through the Pengines system SWI-Prolog queries may be distributed over several servers and web pages.[2]

XPCE

XPCE is a platform independent object oriented[3] GUI toolkit for SWI-Prolog, Lisp and other interactive and dynamically typed languages. Although XPCE was designed to be language-independent, it has gained popularity most with Prolog. The development XPCE graphic toolkit started in 1987, together with SWI-Prolog.

It supports buttons, menus, sliders, tabs and other basic GUI widgets. XPCE is available for all platforms supported by SWI-Prolog.

PceEmacs

PceEmacs is a SWI-Prolog builtin editor. PceEmacs is an Emacs clone implemented in Prolog (and XPCE). It supports proper indentation, syntax highlighting, full syntax checking by calling the SWI-Prolog parser, warning for singleton variables and finding predicate definitions based on the source-information from the Prolog database.

Interface between Java and Prolog (JPL)

JPL is a bidirectional interface between Java and Prolog.[4] It requires both SWI-Prolog and Java SDK.[5] It is installed as a part of SWI-Prolog.

Constraint Logic Programming Libraries (CLP)

Constraint Logic Programming functionality came rather late in the lifetime of SWI-Prolog, because it lacked the basic support[6]. This changed early in 2004 when attributed variables were added to the language. The Leuven CHR library was then the first CLP library to be ported to SWI-Prolog. We mention SWI-Prolog's INCLP(R) library (De Koninck et al. 2006), which provides non-linear constraints over the reals, and was implemented on top of CHR. Later came a port of Christian Holzbaur's CLP(QR) library, and a finite domain CLP(FD) solver. Finally a Boolean CLP(B) solver was added[7].

See also

References

  1. ↑ Wielemaker, Jan; Huang, Zhisheng; van der Meij, Lourens (2008). "SWI-Prolog and the Web". Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. 8. doi:10.1017/S1471068407003237.
  2. ↑ Wielemaker, Jan; Lager, Torbjorn (14 May 2014). "Pengines: WebLogic Programming Made Easy". Theory and Practice of Logic Programming. 14 (special issue 4–5): 539–552. arXiv:1405.3953. doi:10.1017/S1471068414000192.
  3. ↑ Programming in XPCE/Prolog
  4. ↑ http://www.swi-prolog.org/packages/jpl/
  5. ↑ http://www.swi-prolog.org/packages/jpl/installation.html
  6. ↑ Jan Wielemaker, Tom Schrijvers, Markus Triska, Torbjörn Lager: SWI-Prolog. TPLP 12(1–2): 67–96 (2012)
  7. ↑ Markus Triska: The Boolean Constraint Solver of SWI-Prolog (System Description). FLOPS 2016: 45–61
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