Dr. Richard A. O'Keefe is a

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best known for writing the influential 1990 book on Prolog programming, ''The Craft of Prolog''. He was a lecturer and researcher at the Department of Computer Science at the University of Otago in

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and concentrates on languages for logic programming and

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(including Prolog, Haskell, and Erlang).

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