Path: utzoo!utgpu!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!aiva!jeff From: jeff@aiva.ed.ac.uk (Jeff Dalton) Newsgroups: comp.lang.prolog Subject: Prolog standard (was: Panel Discussion) Message-ID: <528@aiva.ed.ac.uk> Date: 17 Aug 88 10:50:26 GMT References: <2546@mandrill.CWRU.Edu> Reply-To: jeff@uk.ac.ed.aiva (Jeff Dalton,E26 SB x206E,,2295119) Organization: Dept. of AI, Univ. of Edinburgh, UK Lines: 22 In article <2546@mandrill.CWRU.Edu> leon@alpha.ces.cwru.edu () writes: ] There will be a panel discussion at the Logic Programming Conference ] at Seattle on the Prolog Standard. ] Topic: A Standard for Prolog: The Current Reality ] Speakers: ] Dr P. Deransart, INRIA, France ] Dr R. O'Keefe, Quintus Computer Systems, USA ] A. Turk, Applied Logic Systems, USA ] Dr D.S. Warren, SUNY-Stonybrook, USA Note that most speakers are listed as USA, but the US is hardly participating in the ISO standards work at all. Since many people in the US may not like the result, they may end up regretting this. Can anyone say why almost no one in the US seems interested in working on the standard? Are the companies that sell Prolog systems hoping they can just ignore the standard? Jeff Dalton, JANET: J.Dalton@uk.ac.ed AI Applications Institute, ARPA: J.Dalton%uk.ac.ed@nss.cs.ucl.ac.uk Edinburgh University. UUCP: ...!ukc!ed.ac.uk!J.Dalton