2009/8/18 Raphael Collet <[email protected]>

> Dear Dmitry,
>
>  On Tue, Aug 18, 2009 at 3:04 PM, Dmitry Negius <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>> No, I need non-linear constraints to solve also. GLPK seems target the
>> linear programming as the name implies. My main idea is to solve
>> constraints, wich are expressed not only by algebral operations on
>> variables, but also by praedicates and logical connectiveness.
>> You can see implication "=>" in the example, but I need and, or, xor, <=,
>> <=>, compound data types of constraint variables such as lists, arrays,
>> maps, dictionaries, and operations on that types in the constraints
>> specification. Prolog is an attempt to solve such problems,
>> but many tested by me implementations of Prolog (Chao, GNU, YAP, B)
>> freezes on simple recursive queries or their stack overflows. In the complex
>> program recursive definitions will occure and Prolog will fail.
>> Consequantly, Prolog is inappropriate for my needs. This is the reason I
>> downloaded Mozart-Oz to study and subscribed to the mozart-users list. In
>> parallel I study Mercury interpreter comparing to Mozart-Oz.
>>
>
> I am working with Mercury on everyday basis, so I can comment on it.  This
> is not a real logic programming language, but rather a functional language
> with Prolog syntax.  And there is few support for solving logic problems
> (much like a basic Prolog).  The developers tried to introduce solver
> libraries (like constraint solvers), but they failed and gave up on that.
>
> Cheers,
> Raphael
>
> And if you have expirience with alternative academic languages please tell
me what locical language is good for the described task? Is Oz appropriate
for the logicaly-algebral constraints? What you can tell about Eclipse and
Alice languages in this context?

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