Claim · 1988-01 · publication · Stated in source · Supported

Kowalski's 1988 recollection is titled 'The Early Years of Logic Programming' and calls logic programming a term that is ambiguous.

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The Early Years of Logic Programming → uses the name →

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Claim and evidence

The Early Years of Logic Programminguses the name ↓

Machine-checked, not reviewed by an editorStated in sourceSupported

Supporting evidence: primary · 1 source

Date: 1988-01 · publication Records dated 1988 →

Scope and limitsUse, in a retrospective account.

The evidence 01

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The Early Years of Logic Programming

Communications of the ACM; PDF on the author's site · 1988-01

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Source excerpt

“This is not the place for an extensive discussion of what should or should not be regarded as logic programming, a term that is equally ambiguous.”

Location in source PDF p. 1, column 1

How it was read Retrieved directly from the publisher

Machine-checked · 2026-10-31

Source details and check notes

Authors: Robert A. Kowalski
Version: Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29 (SHA-256 776f9eec80748ad8896cbddc3eb574fba33ca484602369c4c1ee4302b9d0df33). Scan of the CACM printing with a text layer, on the author's site
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Accessed: 2026-10-29
Language: English (en)
Attribution: Robert A. Kowalski, “The Early Years of Logic Programming”, 1988-01.
Reuse: No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution.
Check notes: Candidate pack passage, Kinds of AI and technical history (research/technical-history). The quotation (26 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-29. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes, PDF line-break hyphens and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. No human editorial review.

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Record ID th-lp-name-kowalski-1988