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\title{SWI-Prolog \versionshort{} Reference Manual}
\author{\email[Jan Wielemaker]{J.Wielemaker@vu.nl} \\
Department of Computer Science \\
VU University Amsterdam \\
De Boelelaan 1081a, 1081 HV~~Amsterdam \vspace{5pt}\\
Human-Computer Studies (HCS, formerly SWI) \\
Kruislaan 419, 1098 VA~~Amsterdam \\
The Netherlands}
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\begin{abstract}
SWI-Prolog is a comprehensive and portable implementation of the Prolog
programming language. SWI-Prolog aims to be a robust and scalable
implementation supporting a wide range of applications. In particular,
it ships with a wide range of interface libraries, providing interfaces
to other languages, databases, graphics and networking. It provides
extensive support for managing HTML/SGML/XML and RDF documents. The
system is particularly suited for server applications due to robust
support for multithreading and HTTP server libraries.
SWI-Prolog is designed in the `Edinburgh tradition'. In addition to the
ISO Prolog standard it is largely compatible to Quintus, SICStus and YAP
Prolog. SWI-Prolog provides a compatibility framework developed in
cooperation with YAP and instantiated for YAP, SICStus and IF/Prolog.
SWI-Prolog aims at providing a good development environment, including
extensive editor support, graphical source-level debugger, autoloading
and `make' facility and much more. SWI-Prolog editor and the PDT plugin
for Eclipse provide alternative environments.
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-prolog.org/download.html}.
The SWI-Prolog project {\bf home page} is located
\url[here]{http://www.swi-prolog.org}
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3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
\url{http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/} or send a letter to
Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View,
California, 94041, USA.
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\begin{quote}
SWI-Prolog is a comprehensive and portable implementation of the Prolog
programming language. SWI-Prolog aims to be a robust and scalable
implementation supporting a wide range of applications. In particular,
it ships with a wide range of interface libraries, providing interfaces
to other languages, databases, graphics and networking. It provides
extensive support for managing HTML/SGML/XML and RDF documents. The
system is particularly suited for server applications due to robust
support for multithreading and HTTP server libraries.
SWI-Prolog is designed in the `Edinburgh tradition'. In addition to the
ISO Prolog standard it is largely compatible to Quintus, SICStus and YAP
Prolog. SWI-Prolog provides a compatibility framework developed in
cooperation with YAP and instantiated for YAP, SICStus and IF/Prolog.
SWI-Prolog aims at providing a good development environment, including
extensive editor support, graphical source-level debugger, autoloading
and `make' facility and much more. SWI-Prolog editor and the PDT plugin
for Eclipse provide alternative environments.
This document gives an overview of the features, system limits and
built-in predicates.
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This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike
3.0 Unported License. To view a copy of this license, visit
\url{http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/} or send a letter to
Creative Commons, 444 Castro Street, Suite 900, Mountain View,
California, 94041, USA.
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