Hi Zope Fans, I've been searching the Web for references to Rules Based Programming with Python, and Zope. Not much so far. Anybody else out there interested in this topic? It may sound like a can of worms, since it sort of implies the need for *yet another syntax* layer. Still, the gist of the recent *Rant* thread re. DTML being at once too hard and too simple, suggests it may be time for another approach. I've personally spent way too much time trying to explain to folks at work that the fundamental principle underlying Markup Languages is to let the computer handle formatting, and presentation. Now that these folks have had a glimpse of XML they are finally "getting" it. Ironically, the reason they are starting to come over, is entirely due to the verbosity of XML, relative to HTML. They just don't want to hand code XML, even though they *knew* that HTML was *easy*. Until the sheer volume of XML tagging was in their face, they could never make the leap to the conclusion that the ultimate volume of HTML documents that need formatting warranted an automated solution. Go figure. How does this relate to Rules? Well, Rules and Natural Language represent a method of end user interaction that is truly "easy". If we want to empower users, this could be nirvana. I did find a link to few small examples of AI at Python.org, on Joe Strout's site (http://www.strout.net/python/) and I'll start there. Thanks for your consideration, Jerry S.