Prolog Function Building

[Mr.Macdonald]

I have heard that Prolog can build dynamic functions like Lisp or Lambda Calculus. How is that done??



On another note, please rate Slackware on a scale of 0 to 10 for the following categories

Speed
Custom ability
Easy of Installation
Being Low Level
Ease of installing Packages
Worth trying on another computer

post results simply like below (nothing for no experience with it)

9
10
6
8
1
4

Thank You

[Mr.Macdonald]

Does anyone program Prolog?

[pmasiar]

I don't think there are too many Prolog experts aroud here (I know some Prolog but I am not expert). We have hard time to enlighten speed kiddies to consider Python! ;-) Lisp is more common "esoteric" language around here. I would recommend inquiring on Prolog newsgroup instead.

[Mr.Macdonald]

Alright, but I will leave this open to who ever happens along.

and by the way

Esoteric Es`o*ter"ic ([e^]s`[-o]*t[e^]"[i^]k), a. [Gr.
'eswteriko`s, fr. 'esw`teros inner, interior, comp. fr. 'e`sw
in, within, fr. 'es, e'is, into, fr. 'en in. See In.]
1. Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated
alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the
general body of followers; private; interior; acroamatic;
-- said of discussions of technical topics and of the
private and more recondite instructions and doctrines of
philosophers. Opposed to exoteric.
[1913 Webster]

[CptPicard]

http://www.cis.temple.edu/~pwang/203-AI/Lecture/Prolog-4.htm

I am not sure if "dynamic predicates" is what you mean, but a bit of googling reveals this.

And no, I don't really know Prolog either, just had to take a bit of it at uni years ago.

[Mr.Macdonald]

Not really what I was looking for,

I want a method that when run, returns a function that was specifically built, in the first function, for the current situation. Like Sci-Fi Artificial Intelligence

[pp.]

A "function" in prolog is just one or more clauses. You can assert your new function and apply it as if it was part of the previously written program. You can also construct your function on the fly and pass it to other parts of the application to execute. There also is a number of predicates which take "functions" as arguments and apply those functions against some data.