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- Title: CLIPS
- Author: Software Technology Branch - NASA
- Version: 6.00
- Title From: Documentation
- Author From: Documentation
- Version From: Documentation
- Supplier: Justin Fletcher <gerph@innocent.com>
- Date: 24 Nov 1998
- Keywords: Programming language; expert system
- Shareware: No
- Machine: Archimedes
- Operating system: RISCOS
- Memory requirements: 2 Mbytes or more (preferably 4Mb)
- Peripherals needed: Will run from floppy
- Other s/ware needed: None
- Date mounted/updated: 29th January 1998
- File names: clips.zip
- Unarchived files: 23
- Unarchived size: 505 kbytes
- Omissions: Word Documentation
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-
- Acquiring the package:
-
- Download the archive files and extract using SparkPlug 2 (see the "tools_help"
- file in arch/riscos/tools for further info).
-
- If you are having trouble downloading large files and transferring them
- by 720k floppy then you may be able to split them up into smaller pieces
- and recombine them using SPLIT (b131). Executables are available for
- Acorn, PC, Sun and VAX.
-
-
- Description:
-
- This is a very simple port of the CLIPS program, which is downloadable
- from various sites on the internet. Other versions are available for
- Windows, DOS and Unix.
-
- CLIPS is a computer language designed for writing applications called
- expert systems. An expert system is a program which is specifically intended
- to model human expertise or knowledge. In contrast, common programs such as
- payroll programs, word processors, spreadsheets, computer games, and so
- forth, are not intended to embody human expertise or knowledge.
-
- Included is both the main application, the standard examples and a somewhat
- nasty example of my own. I give no comment about the quality of the code in
- my example, or to its factual accuracy :-)
-
- I have not included the documentation that usually accompanies the program
- for reasons of size (and because I haven't converted it yet). Someday soon
- I'll get around to it. In the meantime, you'll have to simply use the
- examples and the online help (type '(help)' at the CLIPS> prompt).
-
- Note: Comments about this port should sent to Justin Fletcher, and not to
- NASA, COSMIC or others. All bugs are my own, all features theirs.
-
- COSMIC stated to me that although they deal with commercial requests for
- the software, if you obtain the sources by other means (eg a web search,
- then it is nothing to do with them).
-