English
Prolog
Prolog comes from French Prolog.
- Frenchc. 1600–presentProlog
- Englishearliest quotation 2006same form
attested reconstructed ? uncertain or disputed
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- Frenchc. 1600–presentProlog
- Englishearliest quotation 2006same form
Earliest quotation: 2006, Patrick Blackburn, §7.1: “Prolog has been used for many purposes, but its…”
Every English word from French Prolog
Today it means
name A programming language developed in the 1970s for artificial intelligence and logic programming.
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Etymograph / French Prolog / Prolog