Poplog
Hosting and maintaining the Open Source Poplog website is another of our contributions
to the Internet community. This is my research heritage showing up.
POPLOG is a free, open source, multi-language software development environment providing incremental compilers for a number of interactive programming languages; Pop-11, Prolog, Common Lisp, Standard ML and Scheme.
Poplog is used mainly in academia, to support the teaching of principles of Artificial Intelligence programming.
However, it is also an extremely powerful programming system, capable of tackling some of the difficuly representational and computational problems which always seem to surround the most intriguing issues.
Steve and I are both familiar with the Poplog system and have used it in commercial research projects during our time at Hewlett Packard Labs, Bristol. Now that Poplog is Open Source, we'd like to see more people taking advantage of that.
One of the ways in which a webserver can be deployed to support a community of
users is the provision of group message storage and access facilities.
A dedicated popforum email list serves the comp.lang.pop11 newsgroup. Sussex University used to archive the postings but no longer provide this service.
I've been trying to fill the gap by routing messages automatically to MHonArc and using that both to store the postings and make them available for indexing by search engines.