Paradigm Logic programming | First appeared 1967 | |
Absys was an early declarative programming language from the University of Aberdeen. It anticipated a number of features of Prolog such as negation as failure, aggregation operators, the central role of backtracking and constraint solving. Absys was the first implementation of a logic programming language.
The name Absys was chosen as an abbreviation for Aberdeen System.
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