[rules-users] Drools Clips

[Grant Rettke]

On Sat, Feb 2, 2013 at 3:27 AM, Wolfgang Laun <wolfgang.laun at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 01/02/2013, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 1 Feb 2013, at 13:59, Grant Rettke <grettke at acm.org> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thu, Jan 31, 2013 at 6:52 PM, Mark Proctor <mproctor at codehaus.org>
>>> wrote:
>>>> It was only a POC that partially worked, and then stopped working, so I
>>>> removed it. No one was using it, or came forward to help develop it, so
>>>> figured it was kinder to put it
>>>> out of its misery.
>>>
>>> I see. How much interest was there in it?
>> zip, zilch, nadda, zero :)
>
> As to the usefulness of having a Lisp IF for Drools: I don't see any
> benefit in being able to write rules with lots of parentheses if I can
> make do without.

I felt like it is nice to be able to use the same syntax and move
between different rules engines (ignoring the complexities of
differences between engines). Having a shell to be able to "play" with
rules and get immediate feedback is also nice from a learning
(engineer) and also teaching (business analyst, stakeholder)
perspective. Mostly it is my personal preference.