NDLI: Production rules as programming

Content Provider	ACM Digital Library
Author	Riggs, Ken Roger
Abstract	Programming with rules is a small part of or not present at all in most curricula. We feel that is unfortunate. For a broad spectrum of problems rule based programs express the essentials of the algorithms well. Despite the common wisdom that some languages are best for certain types of problems, we find that rule based programs are as simple as procedural programs, even for typical 'procedural' problems.In this paper we first give a brief example of rule programming concentrating on its differences from procedural programming. We then show examples of how directly rule programs can follow the common conceptualizations of certain types of problems. In order to quantify the simplicity of rule programs, we compare entropies of procedural and rule based programs for typical procedural programming tasks.
Starting Page	18
Ending Page	25
Page Count	8
File Format	PDF
ISBN	1581132506
DOI	10.1145/1127716.1127720
Language	English
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
Publisher Date	2000-04-07
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Subscribed
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article

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Production rules as programming