2P-Kt: logic programming with objects & functions in Kotlin


Giovanni Ciatto, Roberta Calegari, Enrico Siboni, Enrico Denti, Andrea Omicini

Roberta Calegari, Giovanni Ciatto, Enrico Denti, Andrea Omicini, Giovanni Sartor (eds.)
WOA 2020 – 21th Workshop “From Objects to Agents”, pages 219–236
CEUR Workshop Proceedings (AIxIA Series) 2706
Sun SITE Central Europe, RWTH Aachen University, Aachen, Germany
October 2020

Mainstream programming languages nowadays tends to be more and more multi-paradigm ones, by integrating diverse programming paradigms—e.g., object-oriented programming (OOP) and functional programming (FP). Logic-programming (LP) is a successful paradigm that has contributed to many relevant results in the areas of symbolic AI and multi-agent systems, among the others. Whereas Prolog, the most successful LP language, is typically integrated with mainstream languages via foreign language interfaces, in this paper we propose an alternative approach based on the notion of domain-specific language (DSL), which makes LP available to OOP programmers straightforwardly within their OO language of choice. In particular, we present a Kotlin DSL for Prolog, showing how the Kotlin multi-paradigm (OOP + FP) language can be enriched with LP in a straightforward and effective way. Since it is based on the interoperable 2P-Kt project, our technique also enables the creation of similar DSL on top of other high-level languages such as Scala or JavaScript—thus paving the way towards a more general adoption of LP in general-purpose programming environments.

(keywords) object-oriented programming, multi-paradigm languages, domain-specific languages, Kotlin

Journals & Series

Events

  • 21st Workshop “From Objects to Agents” (WOA 2020) — 14/09/2020–16/09/2020

Publications

Publication

— authors

— editors

— status

published

— sort

paper in proceedings

— publication date

October 2020

— volume

WOA 2020 – 21th Workshop “From Objects to Agents”

— series

CEUR Workshop Proceedings / AIxIA Series

— volume

2706

— pages

219–236

— number of pages

18

— address

Aachen, Germany

— location

Bologna, Italy

URLs

original PDF

identifiers

— DBLP

conf/woa/CiattoCSDO20

— IRIS

11585/781391

— Scopus

2-s2.0-85095597762

notes

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21st Workshop “From Objects to Agents" (WOA 2020), Bologna, Italy, 14–16 September 2020. Proceedings

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