Re: Prolog to SQL ..??

W <wgw at cruzio dot com> wrote:
> They look similar because they are based on relations. however there are a
> lot of differences in the details.
[...]


There are lots of nice tricks, but translating Prolog to SQL is not
so strange if you just treat SQL like an assembly language ;-) and use
bottom-up evaluation when appropriate.


There are obviously times when a Prolog clause or 2 can be translated
almost verbatim into some other relational calculus (SQL, loosley),
but a more general purpose translation has to abandone the idea that
the resulting SQL "looks like" it's doing what the original Prolog was
doing and/or in much the same way.


If you want something REALLY tedious, try Prolog to Yacc.
.

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