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Wouter Beek edited this page Dec 31, 2015 · 7 revisions

Annie has made the point that we need (1) COOL applications that are simple enough for a beginner to fiddle with and (2) KILLER applications that

1. COOL applications

Low-hanging fruit would be to make some existing application available through SWISH.

Candidate COOL applications:

2. KILLER applications

Annie made a good point that a killer application is something specific:

In marketing terminology, a killer application (commonly shortened to killer app) is any computer program that is so necessary or desirable that it proves the core value of some larger technology, such as computer hardware, gaming console, software, a programming language, software platform, or an operating system.

Thus eliminating:

  • Academic projects with limited outreach.
  • Internal tools (e.g., the IDE).
  • Projects that do use technology unique to (SWI-)Prolog.
  • Projects that already have a viable alternative (i.e., the "Yet Another X"-category).

Candidate KILLER applications:

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