Rules-based programming
Jon Udell:
"Tools for Rules: Rules-based programming will either help us out or create a different kind of mess" http://www.infoworld.com/article/03/05/16/20OPstrategic_1.html
"Rules engine/debugger as system service?: I like to imagine new OS system services. Yesterday, it struck me that a rules engine, logger, and debugger would be an appropriate bundle of stuff to generalize as a standard system service." http://weblog.infoworld.com/udell/2003/06/19.html