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Introduction of a package system into Prolog

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Logic Programming '87 (LP 1987)

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In this paper we introduce a package system enabling Prolog to support modularity and separate compilation. A package system is for the development of large systems and is an important feature when coding is done by a number of programmers.

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Koichi Furukawa Hozumi Tanaka Tetsunosuke Fujisaki

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Etoh, H., Tamura, N., Asakawa, Y., Hama, T., Komatsu, H. (1988). Introduction of a package system into Prolog. In: Furukawa, K., Tanaka, H., Fujisaki, T. (eds) Logic Programming '87. LP 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 315. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-19426-6_8

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