Proposals

[Lynn H. Maxson]

Joseph Bowers wrote:"Perhaps a good way for Lynn to 
illustrate the ideas brought up would be to build a 
small prototype/demonstration system, or at least a 
concrete specification/set of design documents, and 
show them to the list. This might clear up many 
points of confusion/dispute..."

If you exclude AI systems, I have only two 
languages, Trilogy and Prolog.  Trilogy is 
effectively defunct while Prolog (PDC) is available 
for download.  The text which I use for reference 
purposes is "Simply Logical: Intelligent Reasoning 
by Example" by Peter Flach.

The declarative issue (as I understand it) lies 
with the need for a user to "explicity" declare the 
attributes of a variable used in an expression or 
simply allow its use in the context of an 
expression to act as an "implicit" declaration of 
those attributes.  It's no big deal with me in PL/I 
as it supports both.  As it does so I do not 
understand why we should make an arbitrary choice 
when no choice is necessary.

I'm willing to drop code generation issues, as (1) 
solutions obviously exist, and (2) it only occurs 
after all other (logical) issues have been 
resolved.  As the Tunes HLL (and the other broad 
areas within the Tunes project) has yet to resolve 
the logical issues, I say do that first and then 
the other.<g>

The principle of logical equivalence is embedded 
within formal logic itself.