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bpatton
I "think" I have a need to have a layer of something between my data
and the actual calls.
Here's what I percieve as my layers.
1. data. This is from an excel spread sheet representing design rules
for a process. Happens to be for Semi-Conductor Integrated circuit.
2. The functions that know how to deal with the keywords represented in
the data. Such as space, width and area for 3 of the very simple
rules.
In a past life I used CLIPS, an AI tool. In it there existed rules and
facts. An engine matched facts with rules and fired the rules. The
order of firing was random.
This is what I have
data is the facts
subroutines are the rules.
At the very worst and probably the most difficult to maintain would be
the if-then-else structure hundreds, maybe thousands of line long.
I need this to be almost like an event driven GUI, but where the data
drive the program, not where the program looks at the data and drives.
(SOS)
I believe if there were some method to have an engine that would match
data up with functions without to having to manually type all those
if-then-else this would allow me to easily expand the amount of
keywords.
I'm not even sure if I'm asking the right questions.
What i am sure about it this.
if-then-else would not be easily expandable. a maintence nightmare.
I need perl for transportability
and the actual calls.
Here's what I percieve as my layers.
1. data. This is from an excel spread sheet representing design rules
for a process. Happens to be for Semi-Conductor Integrated circuit.
2. The functions that know how to deal with the keywords represented in
the data. Such as space, width and area for 3 of the very simple
rules.
In a past life I used CLIPS, an AI tool. In it there existed rules and
facts. An engine matched facts with rules and fired the rules. The
order of firing was random.
This is what I have
data is the facts
subroutines are the rules.
At the very worst and probably the most difficult to maintain would be
the if-then-else structure hundreds, maybe thousands of line long.
I need this to be almost like an event driven GUI, but where the data
drive the program, not where the program looks at the data and drives.
(SOS)
I believe if there were some method to have an engine that would match
data up with functions without to having to manually type all those
if-then-else this would allow me to easily expand the amount of
keywords.
I'm not even sure if I'm asking the right questions.
What i am sure about it this.
if-then-else would not be easily expandable. a maintence nightmare.
I need perl for transportability