I've actually been looking at Rete. However, for my present purposes I want something that just does computation dependency graphs. Rete is way heavier than I'm currently thinking.
On Mar 3, 8:12 am, Rich Hickey <richhic...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mar 2, 10:41 pm, Jeffrey Straszheim <straszheimjeff...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > There are a lot of "toy" cells implementations for Clojure, but as far as I > > can tell none of them are really full-production ready libraries like K. > > Tilton's. I'm planning on starting a GUI based project and something cell's > > like would be very helpful. I may end up building it myself, and am > > wondering what the community thinks is the best direction. > > > I have some thoughts of my own. > > > First off, Clojure is not Common Lisp (to say the least), so I don't think > > we necessarily need to create as stateful a library as the original Cells. > > I've used Cells-like architectures before in GUI apps (although not as a > > separate abstract library), and don't really think it is the best way. > > > I'm thinking of a more static, "rules engine-ey" approach, with a small set > > of input data, a dataflow mechanism over some rules, with dependency > > management, parallelism (when requested), and support for fixed-point > > recursion. However, since I'd like whatever I come up with to be reused by > > the community, I'm intererested in everyone's input. > > Rete? > > There's Drools, an interface to which might be a lot of fun. When last > I looked into it, it seemed needlessly painful due to Drools' > inability to treat maps as facts (they wanted JavaBeans). I'm not sure > if that is still the case. > > Rich > > Rich --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Clojure" group. To post to this group, send email to clojure@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to clojure+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/clojure?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
