parlous

adj : fraught with danger; "dangerous waters"; "a parlous journey

on stormy seas"; "a perilous voyage across the Atlantic

in a small boat"; "the precarious life of an undersea

diver"; "dangerous surgery followed by a touch-and-go

recovery" [syn: {perilous}, {precarious}, {touch-and-go}]

Parlog

Clark & Gregory, Imperial College 1983. An {AND-parallel}

{Prolog}, with {guards} and {committed choice nondeterminism}

({don't care nondeterminism}). {Shallow backtracking} only.

Implementations: MacParlog and PC-Parlog from Parallel Logic

Programming Ltd., Box 49 Twickenham TW2 5PH, UK.

See also {SPM}.

{(ftp://ftp.inria.fr/lang/Parlog.tar.Z)}. E-mail:

.

["Parlog: A Parallel Logic Programming Language", K.L. Clark

and S. Gregory, Imperial College, London, May 1983].

("Parlog83", in which the ouput mechanism was assignment).

["Parallel Logic Programming in PARLOG, The Language and Its

Implementation", S. Gregory, A-W 1987]. ("Parlog86", in which

the output mechanism was unification, as in {GHC}). (See

{Strand}).