[erlang-questions] Erlang and Rules Engines / Production Systems

[Jesper Louis Andersen]

On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 11:01 PM, Garrett Smith <g@REDACTED> wrote:

> Use Erlang to tackle that directly. Just hard code the
> rules for the time being - it's easy to move them outside the program
> as config - and when people complain that they can't edit the cryptic
> Erlang term syntax, introduce a rules compile phase that takes
> Markdown defined rules - or better, Yaml - and generates the Erlang
> config.
>

Parse the Yaml to an AST. Compile the AST through merl to Erlang code.
Compile the Erlang code to BEAM. Load module. Call into module. Revel in
the fast execution :)


-- 
J.
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