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"If the only tool you have is a hammer, you will see every problem as a nail." - Abraham Maslow This week, I've been experimen...

Ok, so the pattern matching idea kind of backfired. I was under the impression that a function's default arguments wouldn't be eval...

All those who have tried to write a rules-based program know that there are, at least, two differences between "regular" programmi...

Yesterday we had another GothPy meeting. Apart from getting some formalities out of the way, Emily showed us how to do the FizzBuzz kata i...

I've been doing some more work on my kōan , Sling Blade Runner . I've given up on the beam-stack search approach. I doubt it will im...

Continuing work on my Sling Blade Runner solution has led me to improve the search algorithm a bit further. Instead of looking for good st...

In an effort to understand my heuristic's performance better I've compared the chains created by icefox's (312 titles) and my p...

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

A couple of days ago Pascal Costanza wrote an interesting reply to Martin Fowler's post ParserFear . Like Pascal, I think Martin miss...

Since the rewrite of the RuleCompiler I've been making good progress at good speed with PyRete. It might appear different to the casua...

Two days ago I attended the first GothPy meeting here in Gothenburg. Jeppesen was kind enough to let us use one of their conference rooms f...

I found the ITA Software Hiring Puzzles almost a year ago and ever since I haven't really been able to stop thinking about one of the p...

I've been playing around with a few of the katas at codingdojo.org these past few days. I'm new to the concept but I like the idea ...

I haven't updated the PyRete SVN repo for some time now. Mostly because I haven't really had any (working) code I wanted to share. ...

In an attempt to further simplify PyRete's rule compiler I've split it into three parts. 1) Pre-processing (splits a rule into subru...

There's not many things that make me happier than being able to remove existing code. These past few days have been quite good in that r...

Via Gary King , I found this little weirdness, called the 6174 problem. Pick any four distinct digits (e.g., 6, 2, 9, 0) arrange them into t...

There's still a lot of code to be written for the RuleCompiler but I came a bit further today. I've added print statements to the pa...

Andrew Dalke released python4ply 1.0 today. It might be useful as part of the RuleCompiler since I wouldn't have to constrain the rule ...

Finally! It's starting to feel like I'm getting somewhere with PyRete's RuleCompiler. Earlier this week I decided to change quit...