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Prelude vs Prolog - What's the difference?

prelude | prolog |

As a verb prelude

is .

As a noun prolog is

a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.

prelude

English

Alternative forms

* (archaic)

Noun

(en noun)
  • An introductory or preliminary performance or event; a preface.
  • (music) A short piece of music that acts as an introduction to a longer piece.

    • Verb

    (prelud)
  • To introduce something, as a prelude.
  • To play an introduction or prelude; to give a prefatory performance.
  • * Sir Walter Scott
    • The musicians preluded on their instruments.
  • * Jeffrey
    • We are preluding too largely, and must come at once to the point.

    References

    * ----

    prolog

    English

    (wikipedia Prolog)

    Proper noun

    (en proper noun)
  • (computing) A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
  • * 2006 , Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now! , §7.1
    • Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called.