Re: JESS: is jess a declaritive language?

2007-01-30 Thread Doug Metzler
And the degree to which a production system leans toward the declarative or imperative end of the spectrum is as much a matter of programming style as the language itself. To the degree that you are thinking of each rule as a specification of what to do under a set of circumstances, with flow of

Re: JESS: is jess a declaritive language?

2007-01-30 Thread Ernest Friedman-Hill
Well, rules themselves are definitely a declarative programming concept. But Jess also offers an imperative language, and in fact the right-hand-sides of rules consist of imperative code. So in fact, Jess, and systems like it, are hybrid declarative/ imperative. On Jan 30, 2007, at 5:03 PM

JESS: is jess a declaritive language?

2007-01-30 Thread Matthew J Hutchinson
Hi everyone, I'm trying to categorize Jess in terms of the different programming language paradigms. Is Jess "declaritive"? Thanks, Matt -- Matthew Hutchinson Ph.D. Candidate Department of Spatial Sciences Curtin University of Technology GPO Box U1987 Perth, Western Australia 6845 Visiting S

RE: JESS: saving to xml file

2007-01-30 Thread M Ismail
Hi, Im sorry, please ignore my last quastion, i solved the problem. many thanks and regards, M.Ismail > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: JESS: saving to xml file> Date: Mon, 29 > Jan 2007 09:38:50 -0500> To: jess-users@sandia.gov> > > On Jan 29, 2007, at > 7:46 AM, M Ismail wrote:>

RE: JESS: saving to xml file

2007-01-30 Thread M Ismail
Thanks alot for the answer, the save-fact-xml is a great command. but how can i save the file in a given folder? Jess saves the file in the main folder of the program, i want to save it somewhere else, how? thanks in advance, M.Ismail > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: JESS: saving t