{"slug": "is-jev-just-clever-rule-based-programming", "title": "Is JEV just clever rule-based programming?", "summary": "A Hacker News post by user daly asks whether JEV is just clever rule-based programming, arguing that JEV appears to be Charles Forgy's RETE pattern-match algorithm with more generic pattern matching. The post, submitted 18 minutes before the page was captured, had 1 point and no comments at the time.", "body_md": "| [Guidelines](newsguidelines.html) \\|[FAQ](newsfaq.html) \\|[Lists](lists) \\|[API](https://github.com/HackerNews/API) \\|[Security](security.html) \\|[Legal](https://www.ycombinator.com/legal/) \\|[Apply to YC](https://www.ycombinator.com/apply/) \\|[Contact](mailto:hn@ycombinator.com) | \n\n|  | **[Hacker News](news)**[new](newest) \\|[past](front) \\|[comments](newcomments) \\|[ask](ask) \\|[show](show) \\|[jobs](jobs) \\|[submit](submit) | [login](login?goto=item%3Fid%3D49786485) | \n\n|  |  | [Is JEV just clever rule-based programming?](item?id=49786485) | \n|  |  | 1 point by [daly](user?id=daly)[18 minutes ago](item?id=49786485) \\|[hide](hide?id=49786485&goto=item%3Fid%3D49786485) \\|[past](https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Is%20JEV%20just%20clever%20rule-based%20programming%3F&type=story&dateRange=all&sort=byDate&storyText=false&prefix&page=0) \\|[favorite](fave?id=49786485&auth=3812b6f252212ec645e196379edb9ec3e5f47635) \\|[discuss](item?id=49786485) | \n|  |  | Expert Systems AI was based on Charles Forgy's RETE pattern match algorithm. It seems to me that JEV is RETE with more generic pattern matching. |", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-jev-just-clever-rule-based-programming", "canonical_source": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49786485", "published_at": "2026-09-21 12:35:04+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-21 12:54:00.614576+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence"], "entities": ["JEV", "Charles Forgy", "RETE", "Hacker News"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-jev-just-clever-rule-based-programming", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-jev-just-clever-rule-based-programming.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-jev-just-clever-rule-based-programming.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/is-jev-just-clever-rule-based-programming.jsonld"}}