Programming with Rules

• Formally rules are as powerful as any programming language (like Java).
• They are Turing Complete (the same guy as the Turing test but a different concept).
• It is harder to do complex looping and functions with ESs (e.g. card dealing).
• That is, anything you can do with Java, you can do with rules.
• One way to get the power is to have a global variable store,
• have a mechanism for accessing and changing it,
• and have a mechanism for choosing which thing to do next.
• With these things you can program anything that is programmable.