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Date:Mon Jul 19 11:36:44 1999 
Subject:Free Poplog with sources now online 
From:Aaron Sloman 
Volume-ID:990719.03 

The Poplog multi-language AI developent system is now available free of
charge, with full system sources.

Although it is free it can be used for any purpose whatsoever
(Copyright notice is based on XFree86. May later be replaced by GPL).

What is Poplog?

It is a portable system including incremental compilers for Pop-11,
Common Lisp, Prolog and Standard ML, along with a huge amount of system
documentation, teaching materials for AI/Cognitive Science, the
Sim_agent Toolkit, vision libraries, and other things.

"Poplog" is a trade mark of the University of Sussex, where most
of Poplog was developed, starting with Pop-11 on a PDP11/40 computer
in the mid 70s, inspired by the Edinburgh AI language Pop2.

Poplog/Pop-11 is used in the Clementine Data-Mining system of ISL,
though ISL no longer sell Poplog. (Commercial users can consult ISL
about support and training: www.isl.co.uk)

For more information, see

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/poplog.info.html

For information about the free versions available, and various teaching
and research support libraries for AI see:

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/freepoplog.html

This includes versions of Poplog V15.53 for

    Solaris+Sparc (works on Solaris 7 as well as earlier versions)
    PC Linux (RedHat 5.x, and 6.0) with or without motif

There slightly older versions for
    PC+Solaris86
    Dec Alpha + Digital unix

Reduced version (no graphics, nothing that depends on X)
    PC+Windows95/98 (may work on NT also?)

Poplog comes with masses of online documentation: this can be browsed at
    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/doc/

(Experts may wish to look at the doc/popref/ subdirectory.)

There's an online (slightly out of date) primer for the Pop-11
language which is the core of Poplog. It is similar in power to
Common Lisp, with list processing, pattern matcher, object-oriented
libary, external interface, etc., but with a syntax some people find
more approachable. Browse the primer at

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/primer/START.html

Alternative formats for the primer are available in this directory:

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/

A slightly zany tutorial file on story grammars can be read in

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/teach/storygrammar

COMP.LANG.POP
Comments and questions about Poplog and Pop-11 may be posted to the
comp.lang.pop newsgroup, which is linked to an email list.

See

    ftp://ftp.cs.bham.ac.uk/pub/dist/poplog/newsgroup.txt

(Please do NOT post general conference announcements, advertisements,
etc.)

Aaron
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