What is Plinxl ?

Prolog is one of the most famous logic programming language, used for Artificial Intelligence (AI) programming. 
Excel® is the wellknown spreadsheet from Microsoft®.
Plinxl is an excel add-in, providing prolog-like capabilities inside excel.
Plinxl is a shortcut for “Prolog in excel”.

At a glance…

  1. Download and install Plinxl.
    In your excel workbook, you now have a 'Plinxl' menu and ribbon.
  2. In a worksheet, type your prolog program.
  3. In the Plinxl ribbon click on the '?- consult.' button.
  4. Double click on a '?- query'.
  5. Plinxl displays the answer in the console.
    Click the 'Next' button to backtrack to the next solution, if any.

Key features

Free.
Compatibility Windows – Excel 2013 or newer.
Currently in beta version. Please report bugs, comments, here:  contact@plinxl.com 

Plinxl is written in c#. The engine is widely inspired by the “Warren’s Abstract Machine” concepts.

Plinxl tends to be as much as possible ISO-Prolog compliant. At this stage several built-in features/predicates are missing or slightly differs from ISO-Prolog. Future updates shall improve compliance.

UI rely as much as possible on the excel environment : worksheets, message box, console-like window, ribbon.