Traditional Versus Rule-Based Programming Techniques: Application To The Control Of Optional Flight Information
Wendell R. Ricks, Kathy H. Abbott · Proceedings of SPIE, the International Society for Optical Engineering/Proceedings of SPIE · 1987
To the software design community, the concern over the costs associated with a program's execution time and implementation is great. It is always desirable, and sometimes imperative, that the proper programming technique is chosen which minimizes all costs for a given application or type of application. This paper describes a study that compared the cost-related factors associated with traditional programming techniques to rale-based programming techniques for a specific application. The results of this study favored the traditional approach regarding execution efficiency, but favored the rule-based approach regarding programmer productivity (implementation ease). Although this study examined a specific application, the resuli:s should be widely applicable.