CLIPS vs Prolog

[bazizoo]

Hi everybody,

I'm a student in computer engineering. I’m working on a project where
I have to use an inference engine. I have read a lot of things about
CLIPS and prolog and I have to choose one of them.

I would be very grateful if you could give me a comparison between
them (kind of: CLIPS vs Prolog)

Note : I am using Python and I might use fuzzy logic

[CLIPS Support]

Here's a thread discussing Prolog and Jess (which has forward chaining
features similar to CLIPS):

http://www.mail-archive.com/jess-...@sandia.gov/msg01963.html

[bazizoo]

Thanks but... it’s not really what I want.

I know how CLIPS and Prolog work. I just have to choose between them.
But to do this I need to know more than just the syntax and how they
do inference (forward or backward chaining).

I'd like to get a kind of comparison in terms of efficiency between
CLIPS and Prolog. Or at least for what kind of applications CLIPS is
more suitable than Prolog?

[Peter Lin]

prolog uses classic backward chaining.
jess is forward chaining. the backward chaining in jess uses
subgoaling technique, so it's not full opportunistic backward
chaining.

peter