Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited) --> changing vendor rule languages

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

Received on Friday, 10 February 2006 07:34:24 UTC