Re: JESS: Jess and Clojure

It's been mentioned that It Would Be Cool (R) to integrate Jess and  
Clojure; I think that would ultimately have to mean that all of Jess's  
Lisp(esque) interpreter would be thrown out and replaced by Clojure's  
REP loop, Jess constructs would be defined as special forms in  
Clojure, etc. It would indeed be cool, as Clojure is a much better  
Lisp than "JessLisp". The downside would be that you'd lose all  
semblance of CLIPS language compatibility, as the various quoting  
rules and other language minutae are different. That would make it  
minimally a candidate for Jess 8, or more likely a new product  
(CloJess, or something?)

But honestly, I hadn't thought too much about the kind of integration  
you're experimenting with here. I'd be afraid someone would suffer a  
brain injury trying to keep all the levels of "meta" straight! Not to  
mention the cognitive dissonance of working with two similar-looking  
but uncomfortably different languages at once. If you like that sort  
of thing, though (and I historically do -- I've written systems that  
generate code that generates code) then it could be a lot of fun.


On Jun 1, 2011, at 5:26 AM, Jason Morris wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> I was wondering if anyone else has experimented with (or is actually  
> using) Jess with Clojure?  I've been hacking around with it, and  
> I've actually gotten Jess 7.2 to run on the latest Clojure build  
> with a standard Sun 1.6 JVM.  I'm attaching a little toy app for  
> illustration purposes.  For those who long to have the full power of  
> a JVM LISP behind Jess, running it on Clojure seems promising.
>
> Ernest:  Do you know of any potential snags?
>
> Cheers,
> Jason
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> <clojure.zip>

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Ernest Friedman-Hill
Informatics & Decision Sciences, Sandia National Laboratories
PO Box 969, MS 9012, Livermore, CA 94550
http://www.jessrules.com







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