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SWI-Prolog 5.2.10 Reference Manual


Jan Wielemaker Dept. of Social Science Informatics (SWI) Roeterstraat 15, 1018 WB  Amsterdam The Netherlands Tel. (+31) 20 5256121

Abstract

SWI-Prolog is a Prolog implementation based on a subset of the WAM (Warren Abstract Machine). SWI-Prolog was developed as an open Prolog environment, providing a powerful and bi-directional interface to C in an era this was unknown to other Prolog implementations. This environment is required to deal with XPCE, an object-oriented GUI system developed at SWI. XPCE is used at SWI for the development of knowledge-intensive graphical applications.

As SWI-Prolog became more popular, a large user-community provided requirements that guided its development. Compatibility, portability, scalability, stability and providing a powerful development environment have been the most important requirements. Edinburgh, Quintus, SICStus and the ISO-standard guide the development of the SWI-Prolog primitives.

This document gives an overview of the features, system limits and built-in predicates.

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 MANUAL in the library directory) as well as the PDF version. Sources, binaries and documentation can be downloaded from the SWI-Prolog download page.

The SWI-Prolog project home page is located here

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