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There's an online (slightly out of date) primer for the Pop-11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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Aaron Sloman, ( http://www.cs.bham.ac.uk/~axs/ )
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, UK
EMAIL A.Sloman AT cs.bham.ac.uk (NB: Anti Spam address)
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