Welcome to the CLIPS++ site!
	Our goal is to enhance CLIPS by rewriting it in C++ while maintaining backward source compatibility for all current CLIPS programs.
	The mascot for CLIPS++ is the White Tiger, an endangered species that needs your help.

Version 1.0 feature set :

• Implement wide-character functionality for :
  • CLIPS system messages.
  • CLIPS data elements (i.e. RETE pattern nodes etc.). Note : CLIPS program elements will not (necessarily) be wide-character.
• Will use the RETE II engine for inferencing. (Improved performance, Backward chaining etc.)
• Multiple CLIPS Workspaces will be available.
• Will use STL where appropriate.
• Routers store data in one of two media :
  1. Memory-based : All data will be stored in a string(s).
  2. File-based : All data will be stored in a file. All file I/O operations for routers will be replaced with iostream equivalents.
• Memory mapped file option for Workspace data.

Potential future features :

• ADO Recordset-based Router. All data will be stored in an ADO recordset with an interface similiar to the current CLIPS OCX.
• Ability to access the methods and properties of COM objects through a new construct (defCOMobject ...).
• Develop an interface (IPatternDispatch) that will allow objects to be incorporated directly into active RETE II networks.
• OLE DB provider allowing concurrent SQL access to facts and objects.
• A new contruct called (defDatabase ...). This construct will allow any OLE DB compliant datasource to be part of an LHS expression. LHS Syntax will be similiar to (deftemplate ...)
• Incremental Bload/BSave functionality.
• Import and export Facts and Instances as XML documents using deftemplate or defclass to generate DTD/Schema.
• Option to associate a router to an XML DTD/Schema. (printout xmldoc1 ?variable) will generate an AddNode() type functionality. This will provide some kind of structure to router output.
• New data types Date & Variant.
• New constructs supporting the ideas of :
  1. enums - For example :

     (defEnum CursorType (adOpenForwardOnly 0) 
                         (adOpenKeyset 1) 
                         (adOpenDynamic 2) 
                         (adOpenStatic 3)) 

  2. constants - For example :

     (defConstant MAX_PATH (Type   INTEGER) 
                           (Value  255)) 

         
• Embedded VBScript in RHS expresions of rules.
• IDE featuring color coded syntax and interactive debugging ala MS Visual Studio.