What's the difference between
and
Enter two words to compare and contrast their definitions, origins, and synonyms to better understand how those words are related.

Prolog vs Proleg - What's the difference?

prolog | proleg |

As nouns the difference between prolog and proleg

is that prolog is a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel while proleg is an appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg.

As a proper noun Prolog

is a programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.

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.

    proleg

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (entomology) An appendage of the abdomen of some insect larvae, such as caterpillars, which is used like a leg.