What's a good Prolog IDE for Linux?

Question

I need to write some Prolog programs for a class.

Any recommendations?

Solution 1

Prolog mode for (X)Emacs.

See http://bruda.ca/emacs-prolog/

Solution 2

As mentioned you can use SWI-Prolog. If you like Eclipse there is an Eclipse plug-in that integrates SWI-Prolog into Eclipse. This way you have the best of both worlds, for example the SVN etc functions of Eclipse and the graphic debugger of SWI-Prolog. Worth checking out.

http://sewiki.iai.uni-bonn.de/research/pdt/start

Solution 3

SWI-Prolog comes with excellent IDE tools, an Emacs-clone text editor, interactive debugger, complete browseable help system and docs. Give it a try.

Solution 4

A good point to start is to use Emacs' default Prolog mode plus the additions described here. You can also try ediprolog, which aims for a tighter Emacs-Prolog integration.

Solution 5

I've not tried it (mostly because I never thought to combine the words "Prolog" and "NetBeans" before now), but there appears to be Prolog support for NetBeans. It's not a simple plugin, but a tutorial that shows how to add Prolog support to NetBeans.

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Comments

[Apollon]

(X)Emacs will probably be worth getting familiar with. (If you're not already)

[Matthew Schinckel]

I'd say NetBeans was way overkill for Prolog. I find any old text editor (gedit does okay, but I use a Mac with SubEthaEdit). If you can change a mode so that comments are marked, there isn't really much syntax to highlight!

[PoorLuzer]

Emacs is the best option. X-Emacs is dead AFAIC.

[simpatico]

NB ide doesn't support Prolog. What you refer to is how to create an IDE that supports Prolog based on NB Platform.

[Bill the Lizard]

@simpatico: Thanks, I updated my answer to try and make it more clear that the link goes to a tutorial, not a plugin.

[JesperE]

I don't agree. Prolog is a fundamentally different language that say OO, but that doesn't mean that it doesn't lend itself to strong IDE support. One problem with many languages which cause trouble when doing an IDE is that the existing language implementations do not expose a powerful enough API to access things like the AST and program semantics. Eclipse has a Java compiler explicitly designed to interact with an IDE which makes it much easier to do things like advanced refactoring.

[Dave]

Fantastic recommendation, and it worked for me (MacBook Pro) right out of the box. I had a lot of trouble with Swi-Prolog's built-in one.

[Paulo Moura]

Daniel, you may want to check e.g. PDT, available at sewiki.iai.uni-bonn.de/research/pdt/start

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