Clause and EffectПечатная книга «Clause and Effect. Prolog Programming for the Working Programmer» в мягкой обложке, язык - английский. В книге 154 страниц, она напечатана на белой офсетной бумаге плотностью 80 г/м². Формат издания — 152x229 мм. Все книги аккуратно упаковываем в прочный трёхслойный непрозрачный картонный конверт.
This book is for people who have done some programming, either in Prolog or in a language other than Prolog, and who can find their way around a reference manual. The emphasis of this book is on a simplified and
disciplined methodology for discerning the mathematical structures related to a problem, and then turning these structures into Prolog programs. This book is therefore not concerned about the particular features of the
language nor about Prolog programming skills or techniques in general. A relatively pure subset of Prolog is used, which includes the 'cut', but no input/output, no assert/retract, no syntactic extensions such as if then-else
and grammar rules, and hardly any built-in predicates apart from arithmetic operations. I trust that practitioners of Prolog program ming who have a particular interest in the finer details of syntactic style and language
features will understand my purposes in not discussing these matters. The presentation, which I believe is novel for a Prolog programming text, is in terms of an outline of basic concepts interleaved with worksheets. The idea
is that worksheets are rather like musical exercises. Carefully graduated in scope, each worksheet introduces only a limited number of new ideas, and gives some guidance for practising them. The principles introduced in the
worksheets are then applied to extended examples in the form of case studies.