Comment Re:How is this (Score 1) 235
Could we possibly be thinking of the same CLIPS here? The slightly wacky expert systems language with the slightly uglified Lispish syntax? I see almost nothing similar between CLIPS and Pike -- in data structures, in intended purpose, in syntax, in anything.
One of the distinguishing features of CLIPS is that a lot of control flow is implicit, in the sense that interesting stuff happens for free without the programmer spelling out the steps. Like the way Prolog does backtracking depth-first search without having its hand held all the way. From the material on the Pike web-page, it looks like Pike is just like every other imperative language in requiring the programmer to spell out the algorithm in detail. Less excruciating detail than in C, maybe, but still more excruciating that plenty of other existing scripting languages.
Perhaps it's not the same Pike we're thinking of?
