A model and an implementation of a logic programming environment
Henryk Jan Komorowski, Shigeo Omori · 1985
It has been claimed that logic programming offers outstanding possibilities for new concepts in programming environments. But with the exceptions of the pioneering work of Shapiro on algorithmic debugging, Pereira's rational debugging and early work on expert systems from Imperial College, there has been little progress reported in the field of logic programming environments. This summary describes our current work on a generic software engineering shell for logic programming. We use reflection and the amalgamation of meta-level language with the object level to express and support the incremental character of specifying/programming. An important facet of the shell is that we formalize some aspects of programming methodology and provide heuristics for avoiding errors. These heuristics formalize what experienced programmers may already know.