Re: [TED] Action-188, ISSUE: production rule systems have "difficulty" with recursive rules in RIF Core from Michael Kifer on 2006-12-18 (public-rif-wg@w3.org from December 2006)

From: Michael Kifer <kifer@cs.sunysb.edu>
Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 13:04:46 -0500
To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
Cc: Francis McCabe <frankmccabe@sandsoft.com>, W3C RIF WG <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
Message-ID: <29645.1166465086@cs.sunysb.edu>

> 
> > > How do you suggest that I -- a user -- know what rules I can write and
> > > remain confident they will work on several other vendors' systems?
> > 
> > My suggestion would be to give up this unrealistic goal.
> > Any rule set that meets this criterion (remember that you said that you
> > don't want to change any of the rule systems) is not worth writing.
> 
> Database views meet this criteria, do they not?
> 
>     -- Sandro
> 


So, an effort of 1.5-2 years in order to enable exchange of rel algebra
stuff?  Good job!


	--michael

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