I received the following message from Jonathan Cunningham, who does
not have access to net news. So with his permission I am posting it.
From jlc%bmtech.uucp@uknet.ac.uk Tue Mar 9 15:14:10 1993
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 93 14:08:13 GMT
From: jlc@bmtech.uucp (Jonathan Cunningham)
Subject: McPOPLOG
Some guy at McMaster University (in Canada) has implemented something
he calls "McPOPLOG". I've just read a paper on it.
"The author of this paper has developed and implemented a completely
new version of POPLOG ...."
"Section 2 of the paper describes the fundamental differences
between Sussex POPLOG and McPOPLOG, ..."
"Our version is about two to three times faster."
"... and is commercially much cheaper."
No, it's not a spoof. Are you frightened?
Actually, it's quite a small system (he quotes 75kB vs. 650kB for Sussex
Poplog) and the pop syntax is closer to pop-2 than pop-11. Implemented
in C and runs on VAXen and 68000 processor machines.
No doubt you will all tell me that you know all about it, but in case
you don't the full reference is:
"AI Multilanguage System McPOPLOG: The Power of Communication
Between its Subsystems", I Bruha, The Computer Journal,
Vol 35, No 6, 1992
Regards,
Jonathan
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Aaron Sloman,
School of Computer Science, The University of Birmingham, B15 2TT, England
EMAIL A.Sloman@cs.bham.ac.uk OR A.Sloman@bham.ac.uk
Phone: +44-(0)21-414-3711 Fax: +44-(0)21-414-4281
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