PROLOG PROGRAMMING CONSULTANT
                  Written by Edouard Lagache, Berkeley
                    Received via Prolog Digest V6 #28
                   Shelved on the 3rd of October 1988


This  program is  intended to  serve as  a "intelligent  consultant" for
PROLOG  programs  to  turn  to   when  encountering  some  impasse  in a
programming project. The program is based on the "Eliza" program, but it
designed to provide  comments that might foster the user  to "solve" his
or her own problem. (Copyright(C) 1988, The PROLOG Forum).

The "assistant" was  demonstrated at the March 10 meeting  of the PROLOG
Forum. The program is the result of  3 late night work, and NO claims of
correctness or  efficiency are  expressed on  implied. On  the contrary,
suggestions for  expansion or  improvement are  most welcome.  As stated
earlier, it is  hoped to turn this  program into a group  project, so we
hope that there is plenty of room for expansion!

There are some  calls to my imfamous PROLOG libraries.  The 'window' and
'set_attribute' calls  will only  work on a  Texas Instruments  PC, so I
leave it to you to omit, or port these calls to your system.

Hack to your hearts delight! [EL].


I've  removed  calls to  non-portable  windowing  predicates, added  the
definition   of  member/2   (which   was   needed  by   intersection/3),
re-formatted  the   source,  and   dropped  a  non-portable   call  from
get_seed/1. [JNP].


SIZE:
    28 kilobytes.


CHECKED ON EDINBURGH-COMPATIBLE (POPLOG) PROLOG :
    Yes.


PORTABILITY :
    irandom and get_seed, in the random-number generator, may need altering.


INTERNAL DOCUMENTATION :
    Each predicate is commented with its purpose.