New user seeking advice
Iain
I have spent the last 16 years developing software to support
manufacturing processes using C, Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, RPGILE,
Lotusscript and Progress.
While at university in 1993 I spent a year working with prolog and I
have fond memories of creating little apps ferrying canibals and
missionaries across a river etc.
We are now in a position where we (the company I work for) are going
to replace our current rules based product configurator
I am now having to
Iain
I have spent the last 16 years developing software to support
manufacturing processes using C, Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, RPGILE,
Lotusscript and Progress.
While at university in 1993 I spent a year working with prolog and I
have fond memories of creating little apps ferrying canibals and
missionaries across a river etc.
We are now in a position where we (the company I work for) are going
to replace our 12.a year old rules based product configurator (written
in VB) with a new configurator built from scratch.
We build bespoke products that are highly configurable (no 2 products
that go down the line are the same)
I have an idea that a 'learning engine' could help us in our quest to
build a product configurator that will learn the configuraton of our
products (based upon rules) and make my life very much simpler.
So to get to the point,
I am looking for (preferably freeware) a prolog development evironment
to play around with that i can start to build a product configurator.
I am the type of person who needs examples to learn from with plenty
of good documentation.
Any advise you can give will be most welcome and appreciated very much
Best regards to all
Iain
Andreas
With your Delphi and VB background, at least worth a look:
http://download.pdc.dk/vip/72/books/deBoer/VisualPrologBeginners.pdf
However Visual Prolog is a non-standard OO Prolog dialect, but good
enough for industrial applications.
http://www.visual-prolog.com/
The personal edition is free. The commercial edition is just 300 bucks,
which is worth every cent of it.
Andreas
A.L.
<email.ia...@gmail.com> wrote:
>Hi All
>
>I have spent the last 16 years developing software to support
>manufacturing processes using C, Delphi, Visual Basic, C#, RPGILE,
>Lotusscript and Progress.
>
>While at university in 1993 I spent a year working with prolog and I
>have fond memories of creating little apps ferrying canibals and
>missionaries across a river etc.
>
>We are now in a position where we (the company I work for) are going
>to replace our 12.a year old rules based product configurator (written
>in VB) with a new configurator built from scratch.
Maybe first you should answer the question "why Prolog". If rule
paradigm is suffficient, use one of existing rule engines, euch as
jess or OpenRules, or commercial products from FICO and ILOG
Doing rule engine yourself is wastiong of time and resources
A.L.