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What Is FormulaOne?

FormulaOne is a constraint logic programming (CLP) system for the development of applications. The design preserves and incorporates the best features of the previous generations of logical programming languages. FormulaOne is a compiler with an integrated development environment, including a built-in editor and linker. FormulaOne's compact grammar and powerful set of mechanisms for pattern matching, backtracking and advanced data structures give it surprisingly powerful techniques for handling problems involving symbolic computations. FormulaOne's syntax leads to programs that are clear, concise and well structured. The power of symbolic computation allows the FormulaOne programmer to work at a higher level of abstraction, being concerned more with the nature of the program's function and less with the "nuts and bolts" of how it will be accomplished.

Until now the leading representative of 5th generation languages was Prolog. Prolog, by means of built-in backtracking, introduced the automatic processing of alternatives. For this to work every candidate solution is generated and subjected to tests to see if it satisfies the given terms or not. As an example, a problem of medium complexity might involve, say, 200 million backtracks and take 80 minutes to execute. FormulaOne, on the other hand, will lop off the unneeded branches of the big decision tree and solve the same problem in a few seconds with only a few hundreds of backtracks. This speed and efficiency is achieved due to the implementation of a logic constraint mechanism within its logic engine. FormulaOne is also a natural relational database language. It can readily query one or more of its databases attaching arbitrary retrieval conditions on a record or its fields using its symbolic processing capability. FormulaOne employs sophisticated data types in defining records and fields. A database record and/or field can be virtually of any type, ranging from basic types such as integer, real number to types of variable length such as strings, multiple precision integers, arrays, lists, enumerated and even recursive types.


FormulaOne Features

Formula One Compler IDE
Formula One Compler IDE



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