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<rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"><channel><title>SICStus Prolog -- the first 25 years · HackerPapers discussions</title><link>https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1011.5640/</link><description>Collected HN comments and submissions linking this paper.</description><language>en</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2026 11:16:22 GMT</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1011.5640/feed.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><item><title>SICStus Prolog -- the first 25 years — mentioned by mncharity</title><link>https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18229145</link><guid isPermaLink="false">urn:hackerpapers:mention:1011.5640:18229145</guid><pubDate>Tue, 16 Oct 2018 13:27:16 GMT</pubDate><description>&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; node.js&amp;#x27;s API and require() was based on CommonJS [1], and server-side JS was a thing since the Netscape times around 1996. I&amp;#x27;m sorry, I&amp;#x27;m missing the point. Perhaps I should have said community code repository/database? CPAN, PyPI, npm. &amp;gt; Prolog&amp;#x27;s API (and syntax) became a formal standard only in 1995, but Edinburgh Prolog was widely used way before As was Quintus prolog, the other big &amp;quot;camp&amp;quot;. A SICStus (Edinburgh camp) description: &amp;quot;The ISO Prolog standardization effort started late, too late. The Prolog dialects had already diverged: basically, there were as many dialects as there were…&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href="https://hackerpaper.kaipfister.de/p/1011.5640/"&gt;Paper and discussion history&lt;/a&gt;. A mention is not an endorsement.&lt;/p&gt;</description><category>cs.PL</category></item></channel></rss>
