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Prolog

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

  1. Uncommon spelling of prologue.
    US, alt-of, uncommon
  2. A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.

Equivalents

4 more languages
Bosanskiprolog
Hrvatskiprolog
Kurdîprolog
Српскиprolog

Examples

Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its inventor, Alain Colmerauer, was interested in computational linguistics, and this remains a classic application for the language. Moreover, Prolog offers a number of tools which make life easier for computational linguists, and we are now going to start learning about one of the most useful of these: definite clause grammars, or DCGs as they are usually called.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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