> I'm not sure narval is - even after skimming most of the documentation - the > front page says "NARVAL features cutting-edge artificial intelligence" and > that it would "become the ubiquitous dedicated intelligent personnal > assistant we've all been longing for during the dark ages of dumb computing" Never mind that, it's auto-congratulation talk that describes what Narval longs to be, not what it currently is. Narval is a framework ( language + IDE ) dedicated to the development of intelligent agents. At the moment, it's similar to a forward chaining rule system (except that some rules are chained explicitely, blended with a high-level components scripting language. In *my* opinion, Narval is the way of the future, but I'm probably not the best person to be impartial about it ;-) -- Nicolas Chauvat http://www.logilab.com - "Mais où est donc Ornicar ?" - LOGILAB, Paris (France)