Wild_LIFE
Logic, Inheritance, Functions and Equations
 
parts: interpreter, manual, tests, libraries, examples
 
Paradise Project, DEC Paris Research Laboratory.
 
ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/plan/Life.tar.Z - Wild_LIFE interpreter 
from Paradise project at DEC's Paris Research Lab
 
LIFE is an experimental programming language with a powerful facility for 
structured type inheritance. It reconciles styles from functional programming, 
logic programming, and object-oriented programming. LIFE implements a constraint 
logic programming language with equality (unification) and entailment (matching) 
constraints over order-sorted feature terms. The Wild_LIFE interpreter has a 
comfortable user interface with incremental query extension ability. It contains 
an extensive set of built-in operations as well as an X Windows interface.
 
A semantic superset of LOGIN and LeFun. Syntax is similar to prolog.
 
bugs:		<life-bugs@prl.dec.com>
 
ports: MIPS-Ultrix
 
Mailing list: life-request@prl.dec.com
 
E-mail: Peter Van Roy <vanroy@prl.dec.com>
 
(1992-12-14)
 
  
 
  
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