Tools for rules. The dust was thick on my copy of the 1985 Clocksin and Mellish classic, Programming Prolog. But Ted Neward, author of the forthcoming book Effective Enterprise Java, brought it all rushing back: expert systems, declarative rules engines, predicate calculus, backward- vs. forward-chaining evaluation.
Jon Udell shares some thoughts about rule based programming in the internet age.
Jon offers some related links on his weblog, while Phil Windley reflects on XSLT and declerative programming on his.
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I've been noticing a small push over the last couple of years for rule-based programming. An article here and there. I vaguely remember reading an article that said effective E-commerce would depend on rule engines to support complex transactions.
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