Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- A simplified spelling of
prologue . Seeprologue .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Computers) A declarative higher-level programming language in which instructions are written not as explicit procedural data-manipulation commands, but as logical statements. The language has built-in resolution procedures for logical inference.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
speech or section used as anintroduction , especially to aplay ornovel . - noun computing A component of a
computer program that prepares the computer to execute aroutine .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a computer language designed in Europe to support natural language processing
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some AI languages such as prolog are designed for just such a purpose.
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In other words, the kind of prolog no one actually reads.
HH Com 576 Miss Snark 2006
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First: users are allowed to specify a "prolog" file.
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First: users are allowed to specify a "prolog" file.
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A somewhat unnecessary prolog and epilog has now been tacked on, but not tackily, smoothly enough that it didn't ruin the story.
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My original plan with the rewrite was to convert the first chapter into what could be considered a prolog and then backtrack chronologically to detail the events leading up to that moment.
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My original plan with the rewrite was to convert the first chapter into what could be considered a prolog and then backtrack chronologically to detail the events leading up to that moment.
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I imagine Jeanne best in the prolog to Starseed-bowing to the universe, then waving.
: The Official Movie Blog: Buchi Eihei In pacem James Sposto 2010
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It is briefly discussed in an article here, but the link to the paper with the prolog source code is broken, so we provide it here.
The Volokh Conspiracy » United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child: 2009
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If the past is prolog the reader devices will fail long before the method of storage. 8 track, Beta anyone?
Betting on e-Books Bill Crider 2009
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