I think [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On an unrelated note, Dr Friedman-Hill, at the Semantic Web > Conference last week there were a lot of people playing around with > Jess as their inference tool, both with DJKB and without. Everyone > using it had only good things to say about Jess, but I have to admit > there were more than a few interested potential users that were > asking me about rule editor GUIs and things like that, so maybe > they're not such a bad thing... :)
A few years ago I was a rabid Emacs fan and anti-IDE crusader, because it was undeniably true that Emacs was vastly superior to every available IDE, for any language. All the IDEs I had ever seen had vastly inferior editors and taught newbies to write bloated, incomprehensible nonsense rather than code. But technology has changed of late, and I don't think you can make a valid case that there's a better way to program in Java than by using, e.g., IntelliJ IDEA or Eclipse. Seen in this light, I've changed my tune about rule editors. The next few months will see some exciting new technology in Jess tools that should please your fellow conference attendees! --------------------------------------------------------- Ernest Friedman-Hill Science and Engineering PSEs Phone: (925) 294-2154 Sandia National Labs FAX: (925) 294-2234 PO Box 969, MS 9012 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Livermore, CA 94550 http://herzberg.ca.sandia.gov -------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, send the words 'unsubscribe jess-users [EMAIL PROTECTED]' in the BODY of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED], NOT to the list (use your own address!) List problems? Notify [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------
