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    1/*  Part of SWI-Prolog
    2
    3    Author:        Anne Ogborn
    4    WWW:           https://www.swi-prolog.org
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   27
   28:-module(did_you_know,
   29	 [ did_you_know_script//1,
   30	   did_you_know//0
   31	 ]).

Interesting snippets about SWI-Prolog

This module generates the 'Did You Know blah blah' bit that appears on every pldoc and SWI-Prolog website page. */

   39:- use_module(library(http/html_write)).   40:- use_module(library(http/http_dispatch)).   41:- use_module(library(random)).   42:- use_module(library(debug)).   43:- use_module(news).   44:- use_module(holidays).   45:- use_module(page).   46:- use_module(library(http/js_write)).   47
   48:- http_handler(root(dyk), did_you_know, []).
 did_you_know(+Request)
Reply with a non-cacheable DYK fragment.
   54did_you_know(_Request) :-
   55	disable_client_cache,
   56	reply_html_page(plain,
   57			title('SWI-Prolog Did You Know'),
   58			\did_you_know).
   59
   60disable_client_cache :-
   61	format('Cache-Control: private, no-store\r\n').
 did_you_know_script(+Id)//
Emit script to fetch DYK through AJAX
   67did_you_know_script(Id) -->
   68	html('Did you know ... '),
   69	{ http_link_to_id(did_you_know, [], HREF) },
   70	js_script({|javascript(Id, HREF)||
   71		   $(function() {
   72		     $.ajax({ url: HREF,
   73			      success: function(data) {
   74					   console.log(data);
   75			        $("#"+Id).html(data);
   76			      }
   77		            });
   78		   });
   79		  |}).
 did_you_know//
Generate a DYK fragment.
   86did_you_know -->
   87	{ maybe(0.2) },
   88	!,
   89	html([ span(class('dyk-sponsor'), 'We need you to '),
   90	       \github_actions([sponsor]),
   91	       span(class('dyk-sponsor'), ' to keep SWI-Prolog sustainable')
   92	     ]).
   93did_you_know -->
   94	{ maybe(0.5) },
   95	random_news, !.
   96did_you_know -->
   97	{ todays_holiday(april_fools_day),
   98	  maybe(0.1)
   99	},
  100	random_silly_hint.
  101did_you_know -->
  102	random_hint.
  103
  104random_silly_hint -->
  105	{ predicate_property(afdyk(_,_), number_of_clauses(N)),
  106	  (   debugging(dyk(Id)),
  107	      integer(Id)
  108	  ->  true
  109	  ;   random_between(1, N, Id)
  110	  ),
  111	  afdyk(Id, Saying)
  112	},
  113	say_af_saying(Saying).
  114
  115say_af_saying(Text-Link) -->
  116	{ link(Link, HREF) },
  117	html([ span(class(lbl), 'Did you know?'),
  118	       ' ',
  119	       span(id(dyknow), a(href(HREF), Text))
  120	     ]).
  121say_af_saying(news(Text-Link)) -->
  122	{ link(Link, HREF) },
  123	html([ span(class(lbl), 'News:'),
  124	       ' ',
  125	       span(id(dyknow), a(href(HREF), Text))
  126	     ]).
  127say_af_saying(news(Text)) -->
  128	html([ span(class(lbl), 'News:'),
  129	       ' ',
  130	       span(id(dyknow), Text)
  131	     ]).
  132say_af_saying(Text) -->
  133	html([ span(class(lbl), 'Did you know?'),
  134	       ' ',
  135	       span(id(dyknow), Text)
  136	     ]).
  137
  138random_hint -->
  139	{ predicate_property(dyk(_,_), number_of_clauses(N)),
  140	  (   debugging(dyk(Id)),
  141	      integer(Id)
  142	  ->  true
  143	  ;   random_between(1, N, Id)
  144	  ),
  145	  dyk(Id, Saying),
  146	  (   Saying = (Text-Link)
  147	  ->  link(Link, HREF),
  148	      Info = a(href(HREF), Text)
  149	  ;   Info = Saying
  150	  )
  151	},
  152	html([ span(class(lbl), 'Did you know?'),
  153	       ' ',
  154	       span(id(dyknow), Info)
  155	     ]).
  156
  157link(section(Id), HREF) :- !,
  158	http_link_to_id(pldoc_man, [section=Id], HREF).
  159link(package(Name), HREF) :- !,
  160	file_name_extension(Name, html, File),
  161	http_link_to_id(pldoc_package, path_postfix(File), HREF).
  162link(pack(Name), HREF) :- !,
  163	http_link_to_id(pack_list, [p(Name)], HREF).
  164link(HREF, HREF).
 dyk(Id, Saying) is nondet
True if Saying is a DYK exression. They come in two forms:

be careful with line lengths for sayings, 40 chars max

  175:- multifile  term_expansion/2.  176
  177:- nb_setval(dyk_id, 1).  178term_expansion(dyk(Saying), dyk(Id, Saying)) :-
  179	nb_getval(dyk_id, Id),
  180	Id2 is Id+1,
  181	nb_setval(dyk_id, Id2).
  182
  183dyk('SWI-Prolog is 28 years old').
  184dyk(['the ', b('Profiler'), ' can speed up your code']-section('profiling-predicates')).
  185dyk('You can hot-swap code').
  186dyk('SWI-Prolog uses logical update view'-section('update')).
  187dyk('M-/ does autocomplete in pceEmacs').
  188dyk('C-c C-c CamelCasesWords in pceEmacs').
  189dyk('C-c C-- underscores_words_in_pce_emacs').
  190dyk('C-+ and C-- changes font size in pceEmacs').
  191dyk('About the nifty drawing program pceDraw').
  192dyk('Special quasiquote syntax for html and javascript'-section('quasiquotations')).
  193dyk('Advice for choosing 32/64 bits'-section('64bits')).
  194dyk('You can configure your environment'-section('initfile')).
  195dyk(['SWI-Prolog supports the ', b('Snowball'), ' stemmer']-section('snowball')).
  196dyk(['SWI-Prolog supports ', b(tabling), ' (SLG resolution)']-section('tabling')).
  197dyk('SWI-Prolog has an RDF Semantic Web Server'-'http://cliopatria.swi-prolog.org/home').
  198dyk('You can interface C++ to SWI-Prolog'-package('pl2cpp')).
  199dyk('SWI-Prolog can work with tar archives'-package('archive')).
  200dyk('This website is written entirely in SWI-Prolog'-package('http')).
  201dyk(['about the full featured ', b('web framework')]-package('http')).
  202dyk(['SWI-Prolog can act as an ', b('http client')]-section('http-clients')).
  203dyk('SWI-Prolog supports PDT, the Prolog Development Tools'-package('pdt')).
  204dyk('You can get Javadoc style documentation automatically'-package('pldoc')).
  205dyk(['SWI-Prolog has a ', b('unit test framework')]-package('plunit')).
  206dyk(['SWI-Prolog has a ', b('Natural Language Processing (NLP)'), ' library']-package('nlp')).
  207dyk(['SWI-Prolog supports ', b('Google Protocol Buffers')]-package('protobufs')).
  208dyk('SWI-Prolog talks to R'-package('R')).
  209dyk(['SWI-Prolog has ', b('powerful Semantic Web tools')]-package('semweb')).
  210dyk(['SWI-Prolog can ', b('parse SGML/XML')]-package('sgml')).
  211dyk(['SWI-Prolog has extensive ', b('GIS Support')]-package('space')).
  212dyk(['SWI-Prolog has support for ', b('large, static tables')]-package('table')).
  213dyk(['SWI-Prolog supports ', b('TIPC')]-package('tipc')).
  214dyk(['You can read/write ', b('.zip'), ' files']-package('zlib')).
  215dyk(['SWI-Prolog can talk to Java,C,C++,Python,and C#']-'/contrib/').
  216dyk(['You can control ', b('MIDI'), ' on Mac with SWI-Prolog']-'/contrib/SamerAbdallah/index.html').
  217dyk(['SWI-Prolog has ', b('an OpenGL Interface')]-'/contrib/OpenGL.html').
  218dyk(['SWI-Prolog is highly ', b('cross platform')]).
  219dyk('SWI-Prolog has multiple high quality random number generators'-'/contrib/SamerAbdallah/index.html').
  220dyk('The SWI-Prolog manual is available in printed form'-
  221    'http://books.google.nl/books/about/SWI_Prolog_Reference_Manual_6_2_2.html?id=q6R3Q3B-VC4C&redir_esc=y').
  222dyk(['ETALIS ', b('Event Processing'), ' runs on SWI-Prolog']-'http://code.google.com/p/etalis/').
  223dyk('This website\'s code is available'-'https://github.com/SWI-Prolog/plweb').
  224dyk(['SWI-Prolog can talk to ', b('Matlab')]-'/contrib/SamerAbdallah/index.html').
  225dyk(['SWI-Prolog has an active ', b('mailing list')]-'/Mailinglist.html').
  226dyk(['Jan loves it when you ', b('Report Bugs')]-'https://github.com/SWI-Prolog/issues/issues').
  227dyk(['You can get ', span(class=colored, 'COLORED'), ' text on the command line']-'/FAQ/ColorConsole.html').
  228dyk(['SWI-Prolog has a ', b('Nifty IDE')]-'/IDE.html').
  229dyk(['SWI-Prolog has a ', b('Graphic Debugger')]-'/gtrace.html').
  230dyk(['Try C-c C-n in pceEmacs']-'/navigator.html').
  231dyk('Try gxref. from the top level with a large project open'-'/gxref.html').
  232dyk('XPCE supports a sophisticated styled text engine').
  233dyk('Your proprietary application can use SWI-Prolog'-'/license.html').
  234dyk(['SWI-Prolog has an interface to FANN, a foss ', b('Neural Net'), ' library']-'http://leenissen.dk/fann/wp/').
  235dyk('SWI-Prolog has lots of useful Packages'-'/pack/list').
  236dyk(['SWI-Prolog can ', b('track open source licenses')]-section(softlicense)).
  237dyk(['SWI-Prolog has a pack to access ', b('Pubmed Data')]-pack(pubmed)).
  238dyk(['SWI-Prolog has ', b('Multi-Thread support')]-section(threads)).
  239dyk(['SWI-Prolog provides ', b('general DCG primitives')]-'/pldoc/doc/swi/library/dcg/basics.pl').
  240dyk('SWI-Prolog can handle Unix signals'-section(signal)).
  241dyk('SWI-Prolog can lazily parse a file'-section(pureinput)).
  242dyk('You can add menus to the swipl-win.exe console in windows'-section(plwin)).
  243dyk(['SWI-Prolog has a ', b('Profiler')]-section(profile)).
  244dyk('SWI-Prolog supports DDE on Windows'-section('DDE')).
  245dyk(['You can create ', b('stand alone exe files'), ' from SWI-Prolog code']-section(runtime)).
  246dyk('SWI-Prolog supports arbitrarily large integers').
  247% below here added by AO 2015-01-18
  248dyk(['There\'s an API to interact with', b('Amazon')]-pack(amazon_api)).
  249dyk('Nifty call graphs'-pack(callgraph)).
  250dyk('condition is an alternative to exceptions'-pack(condition)).
  251dyk('You can train markov chains with BIMS'-pack(bims)).
  252dyk('blog_core is a nifty CMS for SWI-Prolog'-pack(blog_core)).
  253dyk('anything in single quotes is an atom').
  254dyk('Logtalk is now a pack'-pack(logtalk)).
  255dyk('SWI-Prolog has probabilistic logic'-pack(cplint)).
  256dyk(['DCG help at lib ',
  257     a(href='/pldoc/doc/swi/library/dcg/basics.pl', 'dcg/basics'),
  258     ' & packs dcg_util & dcg_utils']).
  259dyk('automatic UML->Prolog translation'-pack(dia)).
  260dyk('docstore is a document oriented DB in SWI-Prolog'-pack(docstore)).
  261dyk('you can deploy to dotcloud'-pack(dotcloud)).
  262dyk('CQL makes dealing with SQL easier'-section('/packages/cql.html')).
  263dyk('you can turn ugraphs into graphml'-pack(graphml)).
  264dyk('you can turn terms into graphviz (.dot) files'-pack(gvterm)).
  265dyk('about nifty JoCaml style multithreading'-pack(jolog)).
  266dyk('the first Prolog interpreter was in Algol-W by Philippe Roussel (1972)').
  267dyk('julian pack offers match based dates'-pack(julian)).
  268dyk('eliminate helper predicates with pack lambda'-pack(lambda)).
  269dyk('you can parse markdown').
  270dyk('don\'t use format to print errors'-section(debug)).
  271dyk('there\'s a simplex library'-section(simplex)).
  272dyk('use mavis for type checking'-pack(mavis)).
  273dyk('you can read ODF spreadsheets'-pack(odf_sheet)).
  274dyk('how to submit a patch'-'/howto/SubmitPatch.html').
  275dyk('add language:prolog in github search').
  276dyk('there is an official Docker library for SWI-Prolog'-'/Docker.html').
  277dyk('there is a Docker image SWISH'-'/Docker.html').
  278dyk('SWI-Prolog runs on Android Termux'-'/build/Termux.html').
 afdyk(Id, Saying) is nondet
True if Saying is a DYK exression for april fools. They come in four forms:

be careful with line lengths for sayings, 40 chars max

  292term_expansion(afdyk(Saying), afdyk(Id, Saying)) :-
  293	(   predicate_property(afdyk(_,_), number_of_clauses(N))
  294	->  Id is N+1
  295	;   Id = 1
  296	).
  297
  298afdyk('SWI-Prolog complies with ISO JTC1/SC22/WG4'-'http://cobolstandard.info/wg4/wg4.html').
  299afdyk('C-c C-q automatically corrects syntax errors'-'/AprilFools.html').
  300afdyk('SWI-Prolog defaults to EBCDIC'-'/AprilFools.html').
  301afdyk(news('SWI-Prolog is now available on 9-track tape'-'/AprilFools.html')).
  302afdyk('pack_install(agi) installs Skynet'-'/AprilFools.html').
  303afdyk(['SWI-Prolog powers ', a(href='http://java.com' , 'this popular site')]).
  304afdyk('http_get is (?, ?, +)').
  305afdyk(news('A SWI-Prolog program beat the world champion in box hockey'-'/AprilFools.html')).
  306afdyk('8cD'-'https://github.com/Anniepoo/prolog-examples/blob/master/emoticons.pl').
  307afdyk(news('Bill Joy admits he\'s wrong, urges Prolog'-'/AprilFools.html')).
  308afdyk(['Prolog actually ', b('IS'), ' good for torturing undergrads']-'/AprilFools.html').
  309afdyk(news('Colmerauer admits Prolog isn\'t logical at all'-'/AprilFools.html')).
  310afdyk('about pack(antigravity)'-'/AprilFools.html').
  311afdyk('SWI-Prolog 7.1.29 requires OSGi and qPID'-'/AprilFools.html').
  312afdyk('this website powered by windmills'-'/dogfood.html').
  313afdyk('Nou breekt mijn klomp. Prolog is beter!'-'/AprilFools.html').
  314afdyk('about pack(klomp)'-'/AprilFools.html').
  315afdyk('about pack(cheese)'-'/AprilFools.html').
  316afdyk('about pack(chocolate)'-'/AprilFools.html').
  317afdyk('about pack(evil)'-pack(evil)).
  318afdyk('Use Appendix B for clear code'-section(hack)).
  319afdyk('Early Prologs ended clauses with AMEN'-
  320      'http://web.archive.org/web/20070703003934/www.lim.univ-mrs.fr/~colmer/ArchivesPublications/HistoireProlog/19november92.pdf').
  321afdyk('test'-pack(abdcsd))