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LP/CLP, the Internet, and the WWW

• Can Logic and Constraint Logic Programming be an attractive alternative for Internet/WWW programming?
• Shared with other net programming tools:
  • dynamic memory management,
  • well-behaved structure and pointer manipulation,
  • robustness, compilation to architecture-independent bytecode, ...
• In addition:
  • powerful symbolic processing capabilities,
  • dynamic databases,
  • search facilities,
  • grammars,
  • sophisticated meta-programming / higher order,
  • easy code (agent) motion,
  • well understood semantics, ...
• Most LP/CLP systems already have Internet connection capabilities (e.g., socket interfaces).
• Some ``glue code'' needed: we present several techniques for ``filling in the gaps'' (available as public domain libraries).
• We also try to answer the question: is there anything fundamental missing in current LP/CLP systems?