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[Submitted on 11 Jun 2019 (v1), last revised 5 Mar 2020 (this version, v4)]
Title:The Prolog debugger and declarative programming
View PDFAbstract:Logic programming is a declarative programming paradigm. Programming language Prolog makes logic programming possible, at least to a substantial extent. However the Prolog debugger works solely in terms of the operational semantics. So it is incompatible with declarative programming. This report discusses this issue and tries to find how the debugger may be used from the declarative point of view. The results are rather not encouraging.
Also, the box model of Byrd, used by the debugger, is explained in terms of SLD-resolution.
Submission history
From: Włodzimierz Drabent [view email][v1] Tue, 11 Jun 2019 18:32:15 UTC (21 KB)
[v2] Thu, 2 Jan 2020 01:08:36 UTC (23 KB)
[v3] Mon, 17 Feb 2020 16:30:50 UTC (28 KB)
[v4] Thu, 5 Mar 2020 19:07:37 UTC (29 KB)
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