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# Scryer Prolog
```
?- append("Hello, ", X, "Hello, Scryer Prolog!").
X = "Scryer Prolog!".
```
``` =html
<div style="border: solid #00007f 3px;padding-left: 15px;padding-right: 15px;font-style: italic;background-color: #00007f30;">
<h4>Scryer Prolog Meetup 2024</h4>
<p>The second annual Scryer Prolog meetup is going to happen in Vienna (Austria) on the 7th and 8th of November 2024. Join us to discover the present and future of Scryer Prolog! Participation is free, registration is required. <a href="https://www.digitalaustria.gv.at/eng/insights/Digital-Austria-Events-EN/Scryer-Prolog-Meetup-2024.html">More details here.</a></p>
</div>
```
{width=128 style=float:right;} [Scryer Prolog](https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog) is a free software ISO Prolog system intended to be an industrial
strength production environment *and* a testbed for bleeding edge research in
logic and constraint programming.
Some of the Scryer Prolog features are:
* ISO standard compliant
* Integrated constraint programming libraries: [clp(B)](/clpb.html), [clp(Z)](/clpz.html).
* [Definite Clause Grammars](/dcgs.html)
* Coroutining support ([`dif/2`](/dif.html), [`freeze/2`](/freeze.html), ...)
* [Tabling and SLG resolution](/tabling.html)
* Compact string representation
* Network libraries ([TCP sockets](/sockets.html), [HTTP server](/http/http_server.html), [HTTP client](/http/http_open.html), ...)
* [Cryptographical predicates](/crypto.html)
* [Foreign Function Interface](/ffi.html)
* WebAssembly support
* Usable as a library
* WAM based engine, cross-platform made in Rust
* _and more..._
Try Scryer Prolog without any installation! Use [Scryer Playground](https://play.scryer.pl), which uses the WASM version of Scryer Prolog.
## What is Prolog?
Prolog is a logic programming language created by [Alain Colmerauer](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Colmerauer) and [Robert Kowalski](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Kowalski) in 1972.
The idea behind Prolog is try to express a task in language similar to First Order Logic.
Prolog systems include _unification_ and _non-determinism_ as key concepts upon which we build programs.
A Prolog program is made up of predicates which define a relation between its arguments. A predicate
is made from clauses. A clause can be either a fact or a rule. There's also a toplevel, which we
can use to ask and reason about our task.
It's still to this day one of the best examples and one of the most popular languages in the field
of logic programming. That's because Prolog allows us to elegantly solve many tasks with short and
general programs.
If you want a more detailed description of Prolog, check [A Tour of Prolog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8XUutFBbUrg).
If you want to learn more about Prolog history, check the videos [l'Aventure Prolog](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74Ig_QKndvE) and [50 years of Prolog and beyond](https://prologyear.logicprogramming.org/videos/PrologDay_Session_1_talk.mp4).
## Where can I learn Prolog?
There are a lot of classical Prolog books. Those books can teach you the basics of Prolog. Some
examples are: _The Art of Prolog (Shapiro)_, _Programming in Prolog (Clocksin, Mellish)_ and _The Craft
of Prolog (O'Keefe)_. However, most of them are not updated to _modern_ Prolog.
We recommend _[The Power of Prolog (Markus Triska)](https://www.metalevel.at/prolog)_ for modern Prolog. For reference about
the builtin Prolog modules and libraries in Scryer, check the documentation site. It's this!
## Downloads
The latest version of Scryer Prolog is *0.9.4*. And it's already useful for lots of tasks.
| Windows (64 bits) | [Download](https://scryerprologrelease.blob.core.windows.net/release-094/scryer-prolog_windows-latest_x86_64-pc-windows-msvc.zip) |
| macOS (Intel) | [Download](https://scryerprologrelease.blob.core.windows.net/release-094/scryer-prolog_macos-11_x86_64-apple-darwin.zip) |
| macOS (ARM) | [Download](https://scryerprologrelease.blob.core.windows.net/release-094/scryer-prolog-macos-arm.zip) |
| Linux (Ubuntu 20.04, 64 bits) | [Download](https://scryerprologrelease.blob.core.windows.net/release-094/scryer-prolog_ubuntu-20.04_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip) |
| Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, 64 bits) | [Download](https://scryerprologrelease.blob.core.windows.net/release-094/scryer-prolog_ubuntu-22.04_x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu.zip) |
| Linux (Ubuntu 22.04, 32 bits) | [Download](https://scryerprologrelease.blob.core.windows.net/release-094/scryer-prolog_ubuntu-22.04_i686-unknown-linux-gnu.zip) |
Scryer Prolog can also be compiled from source, instructions are on the [GitHub README](https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog). It runs on Linux, macOS and Windows. Other operating systems may work but they're not regularly tested.
If you're in Linux, maybe your distribution already has an Scryer Prolog package.
There's also a [Docker image](https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog#docker-install) available.
## Support and discussions
If Scryer Prolog crashes or yields unexpected errors, consider filing
an [issue](https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/issues).
To get in touch with the Scryer Prolog community, participate in
[discussions](https://github.com/mthom/scryer-prolog/discussions)
or visit our #scryer IRC channel on [Libera](https://libera.chat)!