Talk:SICStus Prolog

Concerning the history of the language

A nice summary of the history of SICStus Prolog can be found in

SICStus Prolog—the first 25 years

Mats Carlsson and Per Mildner

SICS, P.O. Box 1263, SE-164 29 Kista, Sweden

http://arxiv.org/abs/1011.5640v1

Both Mats Carlsson and Per Milder are *employees* of SICS. But nevertheless there is a nice summary on page 2. SICStus Prolog started in 1985, and it is that SICS acquired Quintus Prolog in 1998, but still SICStus Prolog is an own breed.

Anyway maybe the above paper could be used to write a little bit more about SICStus. Jan Burse (talk) 19:47, 11 May 2012 (UTC)

Thank you. At the moment, since it's at arxiv.org, it's effectively self-published, so there is potential WP:COI here in using it as WP:RS. However, the arxiv entry says "To appear in Theory and Practice of Logic Programming (TPLP)" which would make it a peer-reviewed when it's published. In the meantime, citing it with due comment on the provenance (that the authors work for the organization that sells the product) should cover any problem of reliability. Since SICStus is notable otherwise, this paper doesn't have to be part of the case for its notability. Yakushima (talk) 04:19, 12 May 2012 (UTC)

I didn't say the paper should be referenced for any particular reason in the article. I wrote

"Anyway maybe the above paper could be used to write a little bit more about SICStus.", which

means it should be read. Jan Burse (talk) 09:30, 12 May 2012 (UTC)