: Documentation for three distinct programming styles: Rule-based : Using a forward-chaining inference engine.
The official CLIPS documentation is organized to support different levels of development: Reference Manual - CLIPS Reference Manual - CLIPS: A Tool for Building E...
: Known as COOL (CLIPS Object-Oriented Language), supporting classes, inheritance, and polymorphism. Procedural : Defining deffunctions and generic functions. deffacts (initial data)
The manual covers the foundational "CLIPS shell" elements and the programming constructs used to build knowledge bases: Reference Manual - CLIPS: A Tool for Building E...
: Technical details on the Inference Engine (which controls rule execution), the Fact-list , and the Instance-list .
: Detailed syntax for deftemplate (data structures), deffacts (initial data), and defrule (if-then logic).
: Advanced sections on how CLIPS manages memory and how to define custom input/output (I/O) routers. Volume Breakdown