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I've been rewriting the deftemplate code for MPS more or less from scratch... but I'll have to talk about that some other time. It...

In a recent thread on JBoss Drools' Rules Users mailing list , Mark Proctor writes: ... The Drools DRL language itself was designed as ...

In the last post I mentioned a few of the design choices I've made for the Rete Network implementation. The rest of the engine is quite...

It's difficult to talk about the MPS defrule macro and the code it expands to without first explaining the environment in which it is m...

There are three parts to my MPS (Minimal Production System) experiment, the "engine" itself and the deftemplate and defrule mac...

I've been experimenting a bit with bits and pieces of a production system in Common Lisp for a few days now. It all started as a fun exe...

I am trying to help a CLIPS user compile his application into a Windows executable (.exe) by following the description in one of my previou...

I was recently re-introduced to TextTest - a tool for text-based functional testing. TextTest uses the same approach as is used to test CLI...

Every now and then someone (on CLIPSESG ) asks about how to create a standalone binary (usually a Windows .exe) for a CLIPS application they...

CLIPS is an extremely flexible and adaptive programming environment. Unfortunately, that's not always for the best. Implied deftemplate...

The CLIPS Basic Programming Guide is (more or less) the only reference you'll ever need for your CLIPS programming needs. It is however...

I spend part of my time at CLIPSESG and I try to help whenever I can. Usually that involves figuring out why a rule is, or isn't, firin...

Ok. So I stole the title from Joel's very popular article about Unicode , but it's not just a way to get attention. The point is th...

LISA has no multislots. That's just the way it is. You can add a list to a slot, but you have to match it as-is unless you provide a cu...

A couple of months ago I wrote a CLIPS function that could load and assert data from a CSV-file . It was simple but it worked well for my ne...

The CLIPS Cookbook is now available at http://clipsrules.wiki.sourceforge.net/ . At this point it only includes 5 recipes but I hope that, w...

This is the multi-level backward chaining example from Jess In Action . My implementation of backward chaining had some problems with the or...

In my previous post I described a proof-of-concept implementation for backward chaining in PyCLIPS. One of the drawbacks was that it doesn...

I have been having an interesting e-mail conversation with Francesco about PyCLIPS this last week. PyCLIPS is mostly geared towards adding...

About a week later than I had hoped I've finally managed to finish the Sudoku demo from ClipsJNI . I've tried staying as close to th...