On Tuesday, October 8, 2002, at 01:04 PM, Dan Shafer wrote: > > Yeah, HyperCard had several expert system tools that would probably be > portable to RR. I suspect they relied fairly heavily on externals, > though, and that could make them somewhat less useful.
That's true. CLIPS is cross platform, has a flexible license, and I was thinking it would be a good candidate for a Rev External. Any good URLs or book references on writing metacard/rev externals? My C skills are adequate but not great. > What specific ES features are you looking for? Not sure! I just ordered a book on CLIPS. I'm pretty sure an ES is what we need though. The company does estimation modeling for construction projects, school districts, national parks, and others. By asking a series of questions about the spaces needed, who will be using the spaces and how, formulas are applied, and space and cost estimates are produced. Or for school districts, enrollment estimates are produced. School districts, too. The problem is that currently my coworkers are working in MS Excel and their estimation models and their data sets are all munged together, as Excel files are wont to be. It has caused many headaches as projects evolve and they attempt to apply similar models to different clients or projects, different data sets. > How fast does it need to be? Speed probably won't be an issue... we're not predicting the stock market here :-) Alex Rice, Software Developer Architectural Research Consultants, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
