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\title{SWI-Prolog \versionshort{} Reference Manual}
\author{\email[Jan Wielemaker]{jan@swi.psy.uva.nl} \\
Dept. of Social Science Informatics (SWI) \\
Roeterstraat 15, 1018 WB~~Amsterdam \\
The Netherlands \\
Tel. (+31) 20 5256121}
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\begin{abstract}
SWI-Prolog is a Prolog implementation based on a subset of the WAM
(Warren Abstract Machine). SWI-Prolog was developed as an {\em open}
Prolog environment, providing a powerful and bi-directional interface to
C in an era this was unknown to other Prolog implementations. This
environment is required to deal with XPCE, an object-oriented GUI system
developed at SWI. XPCE is used at SWI for the development of
knowledge-intensive graphical applications.
As SWI-Prolog became more popular, a large user-community provided
requirements that guided its development. Compatibility, portability,
scalability, stability and providing a powerful development environment
have been the most important requirements. Edinburgh, Quintus, SICStus
and the ISO-standard guide the development of the SWI-Prolog primitives.
This document gives an overview of the features, system limits and
built-in predicates.
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\subsection*{About this document}
This manual is written and maintained using \LaTeX{}. The \LaTeX{}
source is included in the source distribution of SWI-Prolog. The manual
is converted into HTML using a converter distributed with the SWI-Prolog
sources. From the same source we generate the plain-text version and
index used by the online help system (located in the file \file{MANUAL}
in the library directory) as well as the PDF version. Sources, binaries
and documentation can be downloaded from the \url[SWI-Prolog download
page]{http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/download.html}.
The SWI-Prolog project {\bf home page} is located
\url[here]{http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/}
Copyright \copyright\ 1990--\year, University of Amsterdam
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Dept. of Social Science Informatics (SWI) \\%
Roeterstraat 15, 1018 WB~~Amsterdam \\%
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Tel. (+31) 20 5256121
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{\it Updated for version \versionlong} \\[1.5cm]
{\large \it Jan Wielemaker} \\[7mm]
{\large jan@swi.psy.uva.nl} \\
{\large http://www.swi.psy.uva.nl/projects/SWI-Prolog/}
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SWI-Prolog is a Prolog implementation based on a subset of the WAM
(Warren Abstract Machine). SWI-Prolog was developed as an {\em open}
Prolog environment, providing a powerful and bi-directional interface to
C in an era this was unknown to other Prolog implementations. This
environment is required to deal with XPCE, an object-oriented GUI system
developed at SWI. XPCE is used at SWI for the development of
knowledge-intensive graphical applications.
As SWI-Prolog became more popular, a large user-community provided
requirements that guided its development. Compatibility, portability,
scalability, stability and providing a powerful development environment
have been the most important requirements. Edinburgh, Quintus, SICStus
and the ISO-standard guide the development of the SWI-Prolog primitives.
This document gives an overview of the features, system limits and
built-in predicates.
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Copyright \copyright\ 1990--\vyear, University of Amsterdam
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