(Visual Prolog is the successor of Turbo Prolog and PDC Prolog. The latest version is Visual Prolog 5.2)

• Visual Prolog Printed Handbooks. US$ 69

• Educational Discounts

Visual Prolog Professional 5.2 (ex. books) US$ 350

On the Visual Prolog Books there is a 20% discount

1. DOS
2. Windows 3.x
3. Windows 95 / 98
4. Windows NT/2000
5. OS/2 2.x and above
6. SCO UNIX (Text-mode, command-line, CGI Scripts)
7. Linux (Text-mode, command-line, CGI Scripts)

Includes a complete visual cross-development system for all 16 & 32 bit windows platforms plus 32-bit OS/2

• Disk space required:

The Professional version including all examples, documentation and VDE source code may need more than 100 MB

• Recommended machine configuration

Visual Prolog can run on a 66 MHz DX2 with 8 MB RAM. For good performance while developing 16 MB RAM and a DX4 100 MHz processor is recommended.

Visual Prolog is compatible with old PDC Prolog / Turbo Prolog DOS projects

• Feature frame or rule-based systems, forward or backward chaining, pattern-matching systems, and constraint-resolution systems.

• Strongly typed and compiled

• Predicate mode checking

• Declarative language. This means that given the necessary facts and rules, Prolog will use deductive reasoning to solve programming problems.

• Contains four code experts: an application expert, a window expert, a dialog expert, and a toolbar expert.

• Internet Support:

Internet support for sockets, FTP, HTTP, CGI scripts etc facilitate the development of intelligent web sites

• Created expert systems can be attached to homepages.

• Allows for graphical editing of dialogs, menus, toolbars, and more.

• Includes tools to parse and generate HTML, IPF & RTF

• Includes debugger for 32-bit applications.

• Include support for project sharing and source code control

• Includes new linker means programs can be built without the use of a C compiler.

• Has predicates to trap run-time errors and exceptions as well as to maintain complete control over and detection of user-generated exceptions.

• Contains tool to create installation programs for applications.

• Automatic backtracking mechanism helps in finding solutions through backtracking where all combinations are tried

• Secure and homogeneous decision making

• Few operating system-specific facilities and limitations

• Can generate programs for a variety of platforms.

• Powerful GUI-builder. VPI (visual programming interface) layer makes it possible to create portable GUI applications.

• The high level of abstraction, and the ease and simplicity with which complex data structures are represented, allow a declarative approach to programming that benefits any discipline or problem solving strategy.

• Has a full, very easy-to-use database engine.

• Supplied with lots of tools and support for databases (ODBC, SQL, OCI and DB2).

• Fast and easy information retrieval

• Supports Internet development, which makes it an ideal tool for mixing Expert Systems and Java on the web

• Visual Prolog, applications can be attached to the web. This gives possibility to use Visual Prolog programs through browsers.

• Is a powerful platform for building Client-Server applications.

• Well interfaced with others languages. The Object Oriented languages like Java, Visual Basic, Visual C++ and Delphi etc can use objects defined in Visual Prolog.

• Visual Prolog DLL’s can be use from other languages like Borland Delphi, Java (Microsoft and Sun), Microsoft Visual Basic and Microsoft Visual C++ etc.

• Possible to create and use pre-compiled libraries.

• Short Development Time

• Fast speed of compilation and linking

• Code easier to modify, when aspects of the domain in question change.

• Ongoing maintenance costs often lower.

• Easy to Read.

• Easy to learn.

• Easy Manipulation of Complex Data Structures like trees, lists or graphs.

• Highly optimizing compiler

• User friendly

• Provides an extra level of security in programming.

• Visual Prolog costs money

• Visual Prolog does not include source code

• Oriented towards exploratory programming

• Visual Prolog is compiled language, one cannot write programs that create new clauses as they run (i.e. programs that write themselves).

• The debugger is not for Win16 platforms.

• Does not support multithreading.

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Supplier Tel:

800 762 2710
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Supplier E-mail:

Supplier URL:

Prolog Development Center A/S
H.J. Holst Vej 3-5C
DK - 2605 Broendby, Copenhagen
Denmark

Phone: +45 36 36 00 00
Fax: +45 36 36 00 01
Email: pdc@pdc.dk

GURU FirstStep

$895.00

• Supports up to 30 rules with one level of nesting.

• Complete information management system that integrates a relational dbms, SQL support and a fourth-generation programming language.

• Include forms manager, natural language interface, custom report generator, full-color graphics, text processor, remote communications

• It includes full-featured spreadsheet along with a 4GL debugger that allows source code to be viewed through pop up windows.

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• Name and address of supplier:

Micro Data Base Systems, Inc.
Research Park
1305 Cumberland Ave.
P.O. Box 2438
West Lafayette, IN 47996-2438

• Supplier Tel/Fax:

Tel: +1 765 463-7200

Fax: +1 765 463-1234

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