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Syntax and semantics of logic programming

Logic programming is a programming paradigm that includes languages based on formal logic, including Datalog and Prolog. This article describes the syntax and semantics of the purely declarative subset of these languages. Confusingly, the name "logic programming" also refers to a specific programming language that roughly corresponds to the declarative…

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Syntax and semantics of logic programming

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datalog logic program semantics ground programming herbrand model prolog negation rules minimal rule set programs stable also declarative atoms models

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a foreign function interfaceinstance ofand related languages add procedural features such as Prolog's cut operator or extra-logical features0.80text
the reals or integers to appear in the bodies of rulesinstance ofand aggregate functions.Constraint logic programming allows for constraints over domains0.80text

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