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From: barshay@Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM ( Unisys)
Newsgroups: comp.ai
Subject: CLIPS OR NEXPERT
Message-ID: <1084@aviary.Stars.Reston.Unisys.COM>
Date: 10 Sep 90 17:50:30 GMT
Organization: Unisys Corporation, Reston, VA
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Hi, this is my first posting to this newswgroup.

I have just recently been tasked with looking at CLIPS
and Nexpert as possible expert system shells for our new
contract.  Has anyone got opinions on these products (if you
can call CLIPS a product). Pros? Cons?

Our customer has bought one copy of Nexpert (which I haven't
had an oppurtunity to look at yet), but I think it is overkill
for our application.  How does CLIPS do for a large number of rules?
(By the way I'll be running on a SUN Sparcstation.)  How do
both these programs do for linking with external code.

I really like the fact that I'll have the source code for CLIPS.
(I'm an old Symbolics user). Any comments will be appreciated.

If I get enough information to make it intersting I can post a
summary to the net.

                        Jane Barshay