| | Definition: | | \Tril"o*gy\, n. [Gr. trilogi`a; pref. tri- (see {Tri-})
+ lo`gos speech, discourse: cf. F. trilogie.]
A series of three dramas which, although each of them is in
one sense complete, have a close mutual relation, and form
one historical and poetical picture. Shakespeare's `` Henry
VI.'' is an example.
On the Greek stage, a drama, or acted story, consisted
in reality of three dramas, called together a trilogy,
and performed consecutively in the course of one day.
--Coleridge.
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| | Definition: | | A strongly typed logic programming language with numerical constraint-solving over the natural numbers, developed by Paul Voda <voda@voda.ii.fmph.uniba.sk> at ubc in 1988. Trilogy is syntactically a blend of prolog, lisp, and pascal. It contains three types of clauses: predicates (backtracking but no assignable variables), procedures (if-then-else but no backtracking; assignable variables), and subroutines (like procedures, but with input and system calls; callable only from top level or from other subroutines). Development of Trilogy I stopped in 1991. Trilogy II, developed by Paul Voda 1988-92, was a declarative general purpose programming language, used for teaching and to write cl. . ["The Constraint Language Trilogy: Semantics and Computations", P. Voda, Complete Logic Systems, 741 Blueridge Ave, North Vancouver BC, V7R 2J5]. |
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