prolog

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see also: Prolog

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Noun

prolog (plural prologs)

1. A speech or section used as an introduction, especially to a play or novel.
2. (computing) A component of a computer program that prepares the computer to execute a routine.

Antonyms

• (speech or section) epilog

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Prolog

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Proper noun

1. (computing) A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
   • 2006, Patrick Blackburn · Johan Bos · Kristina Striegnitz, Learn Prolog Now! ↗, §7.1

     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.

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