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From: "Noord G.J.M. van" <G.J.M.van.Noord@let.rug.nl>
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Subject: Re: How much SWI and sictus are compatible ?
In-Reply-To: <01042517115105.19231@gollem> from Jan Wielemaker at "Apr 25, 2001
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To: Jan Wielemaker <jan@swi.psy.uva.nl>
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2001 17:18:19 +0200 (METDST)
CC: Djame Seddah <djame.seddah@loria.fr>, prolog@swi.psy.uva.nl
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> 
> >I'm a heavy user of swi (i'm working in nlp for my phD in the french AI
> >labo named Loria -Inria Lorraine-) and I would like to know the
> >compatibilities degree between Swi prolog and Sictus prolog, because I
> >have to evaluate a packaged, Hdrug
> >(http://odur.let.rug.nl/~vannoord/Hdrug/) which is made under sictus and
> >which seems to use all of the specificities of Sictus.
> >So I was not able to find such a answer in the FAQ neither in the ngs
> >archives and I'll be glade if you could give me an answer or a set of
> >compatibilities predicats....
> 
> They share ISO and a good deal of things coming from the Edinburgh
> and Quintus `standards'.  Both have extensions, some of which can
> easily be mapped, others are next to impossible. Contact Gertjan van
> Noord.  As he is both a SWI-Prolog and SICStus user he might be able
> and willing to explain the issues around Hdrug.
> 


Hdrug heavily builds on the Tcl/Tk library that comes with SICStus.
This is not easily mapped to SWI.

Gertjan

