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<p align="center"><a href="https://github.com/JCumin/Brachylog"><img src="https://github.com/JCumin/Brachylog/blob/master/misc/brachylog_logo.png" alt="Brachylog" width="600"/></a></p> # What is it? Brachylog is a declarative logic programming language much like Prolog. Brachylog is designed to be much terser than Prolog, while retaining some readability. Currently in development. Brachylog uses [SWI-Prolog](http://www.swi-prolog.org/) as Prolog engine. ## How do I use this? ### Documentation Check out [Brachylog's Wiki](https://github.com/JCumin/Brachylog/wiki) if you want to learn how to write programs in this language. You may want to watch this [**short video introduction to Brachylog**](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYVhZ-MFcUs). ### Try it online! You can try out Brachylog on [Try it online!](https://tio.run/nexus/brachylog2), thanks to @DennisMitchell. ### Brachylog language bar [You can find here](https://abrudz.github.io/lb/brachylog) the Brachylog language bar which gives you access to all symbols used in Brachylog on any webpage (by clicking on the symbols or by inputing shortcuts), thanks to @abrudz. ### The interpreter Brachylog's interpreter is entirely written in Prolog. Therefore, installing [SWI-Prolog](http://www.swi-prolog.org/) (version 7 and up) is mandatory to use Brachylog (We do not guarantee that Brachylog's interpreter will be compatible with any other Prolog implementation). To run Brachylog's interpreter, start SWI-Prolog's interpreter inside the `src` directory available in this repository, and consult the file `brachylog.pl` (`consult(brachylog).`). Alternatively, you can run the interpreter with: $ swipl src/brachylog.pl You can then run Brachylog programs using different predicates: - `run_from_file(FileName, Input, Output)`: `FileName` is an atom (i.e. between single quotes `'`) representing the file containing your Brachylog code. For example: `run_from_file('code.brachylog',"Test Input",Z)`. - `run_from_atom(Code, Input, Output)`: `Code` is an atom (i.e. between single quotes `'`) containing your Brachylog code. For example: `run_from_atom('∧"Hello, World!"w',_,_)`. Note that you will have to escape certain characters in `Code`. - `run(Input, Output)`: This will run a Brachylog program that has already been transpiled to Prolog using either of the two previous predicates. More precisely, this will query `brachylog_main/2` in the file `compiled_brachylog.pl`. The first two predicates will transpile your Brachylog program into Prolog, subsequently generating a file called `compiled_brachylog.pl` in the same directory that contains `brachylog.pl`. The three run predicates will then consult it and query `brachylog_main/3`. Note that the first two run predicates also exist with either no `Output` argument, or with no `Input` nor `Output` argument, if necessary. For example, `run_from_file('code.brachylog')` is equivalent to `run_from_file('code.brachylog', _, _)`. ### Contributors - Julien Cumin - [@JCumin](https://github.com/JCumin) - Markus Triska - [@triska](https://github.com/triska) - ais523 - [@UnrelatedString](https://github.com/UnrelatedString)