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…
- Download and install Plinxl.
In your excel workbook, you now have a'Plinxl'menu and ribbon. - In a worksheet, type your prolog program.
- In the Plinxl ribbon click on the
'?- consult.'button. - Double click on a
'?- query'. - 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.