Is JEV just clever rule-based programming?

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.

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