- From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:34:18 +0100
- To: public-rif-wg@w3.org
Michael Kifer wrote: >For instance, Oracle added recursion way >back. Unfortunately, the people who designed this extension for Oracle had >no foggiest idea about what they were trying to do, and the result was >nothing short of an abomination. > >RIF should stay away from this approach. > Sure. There are two ways to stay away form this: The first way is a RIF offering only features trivial to implement. The advantages are clear, the drawbacks are that such a RIF may be of little use. The second way is a RIF going a little bit beyond features trivial to implement giving hints at reasonable implementations. >Perhaps the reason why the rules >market is fairly small is because the current commercial rule languages are >so pathetically poor and ill-founded. > > This gives room for RIF to make a step forwards, does not it? -- Francois
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