Archive for July, 2009

Prolog pages at prolog.aule-browser.com

Saturday, July 25th, 2009

There is now an Aule browser for Prolog. If you set www.aule-browser.com as a privileged site in your Curl RTE Control Panel then you will be able to enjoy some of the advanced features as they appear: tracking your notes on these topics, indicating which pages have updated since your last visit, selecting topics to track and then creating links to topics not offered by default in this Aule.. Watch for links to pages on XSB and FLORA-2 for the Semantic Web and Clojure for the JVM.

Some of the Aule buttons are to such topics as Prolog embedded in Smalltalk and constraint resolution implemented in Smalltalk.

And there is a link to the XSB OpenShore project. Several links relate to DataLog and minimalist rule engines.

If you have fallen out of touch with Prolog, now might be the time to visit Logtalk or BinNet, both on the top toolbar of this Aule Browser as defaults.

As advanced features appear in the wikipedia browser and migrate into common Curl packages, those features will automatically become part of your Prolog Aule when you next visit the site.

More information on installing this and other Aule Browsers on your Windows desktop will follow in the days to come.

Web Velocity released

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009

I have a note over at my Curl blog that Web Velocity is now available. So “Borges” for Ruby should look out even if running on rubinious …

Actually, CINCOM’s framework will likely see adoption in the enterprise (in recent years, financials) and Ruby on Rails remain the small ISV temptation that it already is … and no, Smalltalk is not dead: just look at the CINCOM client list.

Nor is PROLOG dead. One of the vendors simply chooses to mention their software and their clients, not their language. Competitive advantage, I suppose. What Seaside has done for Smalltalk we may yet see Logtalk do for PROLOG.

As for Curl, there should be an announcement soon …