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 quite powerful.
On Fri, Jun 3, 2011 at 10:02 AM, Ernest Friedman-Hill
ejfr...@sandia.gov wrote:
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 would
indeed be cool, as Clojure is a much better Lisp than JessLisp. The
downside would be that you'd lose all semblance of CLIPS language
compatibility, as the various quoting rules and other language minutae are
different. That would make it minimally a candidate for Jess 8, or more
likely a new product (CloJess, or something?)
But honestly, I hadn't thought too much about the kind of integration you're
experimenting with here. I'd be afraid someone would suffer a brain injury
trying to keep all the levels of meta straight! Not to mention the
cognitive dissonance of working with two similar-looking but uncomfortably
different languages at once. If you like that sort of thing, though (and I
historically do -- I've written systems that generate code that generates
code) then it could be a lot of fun.
On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:26 AM, Jason Morris wrote:
Hi All,
I was wondering if anyone else has experimented with (or is actually
using) Jess with Clojure? Â I've been hacking around with it, and I've
actually gotten Jess 7.2 to run on the latest Clojure build with a standard
Sun 1.6 JVM. Â I'm attaching a little toy app for illustration purposes.
 For
those who long to have the full power of a JVM LISP behind Jess, running it
on Clojure seems promising.
Ernest: Â Do you know of any potential snags?
Cheers,
Jason
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