Prolog vs Prolong - What's the difference?
prolog | prolong |
(computing) A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
* 2006 , Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz,
(label) To extend in space or length.
(label) To lengthen in time; to extend the duration of; to draw out; to continue.
* {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers)
, chapter=5, title= (label) To lengthen temporally; to put off to a distant time; to postpone.
As a proper noun Prolog
is a programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.As a noun prolog
is a speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.As a verb prolong is
to extend in space or length.prolog
English
(wikipedia Prolog)Proper noun
(en proper noun)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.
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Verb
(en verb)A Cuckoo in the Nest, passage=The departure was not unduly prolonged . In the road Mr. Love and the driver favoured the company with a brief chanty running. “Got it?—No, I ain't, 'old on,—Got it? Got it?—No, 'old on sir.”}}
