Procedural Approach Versus Logical Approach
The two major paradigms for constructing semantic software systems were procedural and logical. The procedural paradigm was epitomized by Lisp which featured recursive procedures that operated on list structures.
The logical paradigm was epitomized by uniform proof procedure resolution theorem provers . According to the logical paradigm it was “cheating” to incorporate procedural knowledge .
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