MicroPROLOG is a dialect of the list-processing language, PROLOG, which has been adapted specially for microcomputers. PROLOG, known as one of the best languages for experimenting with artificial intelligence, has a rather 'human' approach to problem-solving. It can hold a set of rules in a 'knowledge base', and answer general questions using them. This allows such subjects as logic and language to be analysed by defining  the basic attributes and then querying those attributes, very much as we do with the knowledge base held in our own brains. Expert systems are a direct example of this type of reasoning, and this is explained in the book.

This book tackles the usually difficult task of explaining MicroPROLOG simply and concisely, and introduces the language in company with its main application - artificial intelligence. It is based heavily on examples, and has been prepared with reference to MicroPROLOG packages on the IBM (and look-alikes), Acorn, Sinclair and other machines.