Re: JESS: Jess and Clojure

2011-06-03 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
It's been mentioned that It Would Be Cool (R) to integrate Jess and Clojure; I think that would ultimately have to mean that all of Jess's Lisp(esque) interpreter would be thrown out and replaced by Clojure's REP loop, Jess constructs would be defined as special forms in Clojure, etc. It

Re: JESS: Jess and Clojure

2011-06-03 Thread Peter Lin
I've also pondered the idea of clojure + jess with others. The benefits of doing full LISP is powerful, even if a significant percent of the users will never use features beyond the existing CLIPS functionality. The other benefit I see with clojure is the transactional memory. The STM model is

Re: JESS: Jess and Clojure

2011-06-03 Thread Donald Paul Winston
cognitive dissonace ? Now I have a name for all my problems. On Jun 3, 2011, at 10:02 AM, Ernest Friedman-Hill wrote: Not to mention the cognitive dissonance of working with two similar-looking but uncomfortably different languages at once.