Features
Logtalk aims to bring together the advantages of object-oriented programming and logic programming. Object-orientation emphasizes developing discrete, reusable units of software, while logic programming emphasizes representing the knowledge of each object in a declarative way.
As an object-oriented programming language, Logtalk's major features include support for both classes (with optional metaclasses) and prototypes, parametric objects, protocols (interfaces), categories (mixins, aspects, hot patching), multiple inheritance, event-driven programming, high-level multi-threading programming, reflection, and automatic generation of documentation.
For Prolog programmers, Logtalk provides predicate namespaces (supporting both static and dynamic objects), private, protected, and public object predicates, coinductive predicates, separation between interface and implementation, better portability than Prolog modules, simple and intuitive meta-predicate semantics, and lambda expressions.
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