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relational language

relational language

(language)
Any kind of programming language that specifies output in terms of some property and some arguments. For example, if Tom has two brothers, Dick and Harry, a relational language will respond to the query "Who is Tom's brother?" with either Dick or Harry. Notice that unlike functional languages, relational languages do not require a unique output for each predicate/argument pair. Prolog is the best known relational language.
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The relational language, and the reflections on the divine friendship which pepper the work, only served to reinforce that view, and many, including this reviewer, have fallen for it.
In preparing the preceding material, I did not have a chance to read the paper by Clark and Gregory [5], proposing a concurrent logic programming language called Relational Language. Just after having read the paper, I believed that thier proposal was the direction we should follow because it satisfied most of the functional specifications of the first and second versions of FGKL, as cited.
The first concurrent logic programming language I learned was the Relational Language by Keith Clark and Steve Gregory [8].
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