[flyhighplato]

I’ve been using this in our Python project via clipspy (https://github.com/noxdafox/clipspy) and it’s been pretty nice. Clips is really REPL-centric and provides a lot of good debugging tools. It’s powerful and fast. The maintainer (Gary Riley) also does a great job answering questions on SO. Pretty happy with it.

[stergios]

Gary was also one of the first and primary authors of CLIPS.

If I recall correctly, a summer intern in the AI section under the Mission Planning Directorate, whose name I have forgotten, developed a prototype or a proof-of-concept of CLIPS. At the time, 1984-ish, the AI group at JSC had many expensive Symbolics and Lisp Machine computers running ART. The intern's project showed that a pattern matching rules based engine could be developed in a conventional programing language for distribution to traditional cost effective hardware.

[sedachv]

> a conventional programing language for distribution to traditional cost effective hardware.

In 1984, C was considered a new programming language. The VAX first came out in 1977, and the Sun 1 in 1982. Traditional hardware in 1984 would be an IBM mainframe.

[JabavuAdams]

Oooh, thanks for this!