Re: Rules Engine [OT]

In article <lhWg7.11198$2u.81012_at_www.newsranger.com>, D_at_B.A says...
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>In article <3B841D31.AE726E3D_at_objectarchitects.de>, Wolfgang Keller says...
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>Quoting your rules paper:
>>Deeper analysis yields that your domain experts have trouble expressing their >knowledge in rules. A closer look shows you that writing rules is pretty much >like writing code.
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>Now after half a century of programming languages evolution, we have rich
>programming model with exceptions, transactions, variable scope control, threads
>of execution, and objects. And I fail to identify those constructions in rules
>programming.

Let alone exceptions and othe "advanced" features, how would I program something trivial requiring, say, a trivial "while" loop in rules model? Increment salary by 10% for all employees? Received on Wed Aug 22 2001 - 17:33:37 CDT