[ANN] revclips: CLIPS external library for Revolution

[Alex Rice]

C Language Integrated Production System "CLIPS is a productive 
development and delivery expert system tool which provides a complete 
environment for the construction of rule and/or object based expert 
systems. Created in 1985, CLIPS is now widely used throughout the 
government, industry, and academia."
  http://www.ghg.net/clips/CLIPS.html

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"Revolution is a multi-platform software development tool that enables 
developers to easily and quickly create powerful applications for OS X, 
classic Mac OS, Windows, Linux, and popular Unix systems... with native 
look and feel on all platforms."
  http://www.runrev.com/

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revclips is an "external" (native code library) for using the CLIPS 
expert system software from Revolution. Using the external it's not 
necessary to call the CLIPS command line program with shell() calls, 
because the external loads the CLIPS environment and makes it available 
directly via transcript handlers and functions. Handlers implemented so 
far are:

clipsInit
clipsRun
clipsEval
clipsPrintRouter
clipsClear
clipsReset
clipsBuild
clipsAssertString
clipsSaveFacts
clipsLoad
clipsLoadFacts
clipsLoadFactsFromString
clipsFacts

revclips is written in C and available for Windows and Mac OS (v10 or 
newer). Linux and UNIX builds can be be made on request. If you are 
interested in helping test and develop this library, please contact me 
off list. Thanks, Alex

Alex Rice, Software Developer
Architectural Research Consultants, Inc.
alrice at ARCplanning.com
alrice at swcp.com