Editing Absys

{{Infobox programming language
| paradigm        = [[Logic programming]]
| year            = 1967
| influenced      = [[Prolog]]
}}

'''Absys''' was an early [[declarative programming|declarative]] [[programming language]] from the [[University of Aberdeen]].<ref name="elcock">{{Cite journal | last1 = Elcock | first1 = E.W. | year = 1990 | title = Absys: the first logic programming language —A retrospective and a commentary | journal = The Journal of Logic Programming | volume = 9 | issue = 1 | pages = 1–17 | doi = 10.1016/0743-1066(90)90030-9 | doi-access = free }}</ref>  It anticipated a number of features of [[Prolog]] such as [[negation as failure]], aggregation operators, the 
central role of backtracking<ref name="kowalski">{{Cite journal| doi = 10.1145/35043.35046 | last1 = Kowalski | first1 = R. A. | title = The early years of logic programming | journal = Communications of the ACM | volume = 31 | page = 38 | year = 1988 | s2cid = 12259230 |url=http://www.doc.ic.ac.uk/~rak/papers/the%20early%20years.pdf}}</ref> and constraint solving.<ref name="elcock"/>  Absys was the first implementation of a [[logic programming|logic programming language]].<ref name="elcock" />

The name ''Absys'' was chosen as an abbreviation for ''Aberdeen System''.<ref name="elcock" />

==See also==
*[[ABSET]]

==References==
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*"ABSYS: An Incremental Compiler for Assertions", J.M. Foster et al., Mach Intell 4, Edinburgh U Press, 1969, pp.&nbsp;423–429

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