On Mon, 31 Mar 2008 22:52:09 +0200 Ben Torfs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> As a fan of both the prolog programming language and the GTK+ toolkit
> (as a user), I was wondering why the GTK page makes no mention of any
> prolog bindings. For those of you that are unfamiliar: prolog is a
> declarative language (like haskell, but very different in the way it
> works). Until now, it has mostly been used as a research tool in
> artificial intelligence (theorem proving, knowledge representation,
> etc.) However, I believe it has a lot of potential to be used for
> desktop applications too. Haskell too, for example, has also proven to
> be a success for end-user applications (gtk+ bindings exist). I think
> prolog is just a breeze to program in, and I would love to push it
> further! Specifically, by implementing GTK+ bindings for this language
> myself, as a Google Summer of Code project. Implementing all functions
> would probably be too much work for a 3-month project, but it could
> certainly deliver a basic subset, as a basis for myself and other
> developers to continue working on later.
It should take much less than 3 months. I've implemented exhaustive
GTK+ bindings for a language I'm designing in a couple of days. The
internal API representation suitable for use by a generator program
can be automatically obtained:
- for types and methods, by parsing the C headers
- for properties and signals, by using GLib introspection
mechanisms such as g_object_class_list_properties()
Regarding the usefulness: I would say that for general-purpose
programming, Prolog is useless, and so would be your bindings.
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Jean-Yves Lefort <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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