Re: [rules-users] Expert Systems and Functional programming?

There were a number of research efforts that looked at combining procedural and rule base programming. This one is quite interesting: Combining Rule-Based and Procedural Programming in the XC and XE Programming Lanaugages http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.9.1106&rep=r... Mark On 11 Mar 2013, at 18:03, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote: > On 11 March 2013 16:19, Mark Proctor <mproctor(a)codehaus.org&gt; wrote: > So thinking really long term here. Can we build a "java layer" that > provide all the rule functionality we need - but fit ontop of the java > language neatly. We'd probably need to allow "rule" keyword and have it in > Classes, at the method level. All class members and methods would be > available to the rules in that class. > > There is this production rule system where you can write your rules > embedded in compiling units, and alongside the legacy program units, of a > procedural, modular, strongly type HLL, and where you use expressions in > the language's own syntax in constraints... > > We've been using it ever since 1986. Rabbi Akiva was right, wasn't he ;-) > > -W > > _______________________________________________ > rules-users mailing list > rules-users(a)lists.jboss.org > https://lists.jboss.org/mailman/listinfo/rules-users