PPDP 2009 over and Prological SYB code goes live

Just tried to send an email to what I thought would be the cafe mailing list of the Association of Logic Programming (ALP). My message bounced. Sigh! Anyway, here is the message and below you also see the content of the README file for the tiny code distribution for scrap[p]ing boilerplate prologically.

From: Ralf Laemmel rlaemmel@gmail.com

To: Alp-cafe-request@babel.ls.fi.upm.es

Date: Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:57:11 +0100

Subject: post-PPDP 2009 greeting

Not sure whether this mailing list is actually working (because I haven't seen any traffic since June when it all started) but I thought it couldn't hurt to send a short post-PPDP 2009 greeting. António Porto, Francisco J. López-Fraguas, Pedro Quaresma, Ana Paula Tomás, and their collaborators have put together a great conference event. The program was really packed; perhaps even a bit stressful :-) I would have loved to interact a bit more during additional breaks and panels.

For what it's worth, I have uploaded the SYB sources for my invited talk to a google code repository.

http://code.google.com/p/strafunski/source/browse/#svn/trunk/ppdp09

Regards,
Ralf




README follows


These are sources that I release with my PPDP 2009 invited talk.
Please understand that this is *illustrative* code.
I have merely sketched certain aspects.
It is really just illustration for a talk!
It may be useful though.

Here is quick inventory of this file system:

shared: basic lib functionality used by several "experiments"
* holp: higher-order logic programming convenience
* syb: very little to be shared of SYB among experiments
* lists: (mainly higher-order) list processing
* meta: metaprogramming convenience
* vars: operations on lists/sets of logical/nonground variables
* msft: test data

experiments: experiments or illustrations used in the talk
* basic: the most basic SYB experiment
* backtracking: illustration of backtracking traversal
* nonground: illustration of traversal of nonground terms
* bidirectional: crazy inquiry into multi-mode traversal
* optimized: a generative and optimized model of SYB

All the experiments consist of two parts:
* lib: all library (generic) functionality
* app: specific illustrations (using msft typically)

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