That's definitely true, but I do think production rules have some uses that are less obvious.
For instance, XSLT is not "an overcomplicated Jinja 2" but rather it is based on production rules but hardly anybody seems to know that, they just think it's a Jinja 2 that doesn't do what they want.
Production rules are remarkably effective at dealing with deep asynchrony, say a process that involves some steps done by people or some steps done by humans, like a loan application being processed by a bank that has to be looked at by a loan officer. They could be an answer to the async comm problems in the web browser. See also complex events processing.
Production rules could be a more disciplined way to address the issues addressed by stored procedures in databases.
I've written systems where production rules are used in the control plane to set up and tear down data pipelines with multiple phases in a way that can exploit the opportunistic parallelism that can be found in sprawling commercial batch jobs. (The Jena folks told me what I was doing wasn't supported but I'd spent a lot of time with the source code and there was no problem.)
For instance, XSLT is not "an overcomplicated Jinja 2" but rather it is based on production rules but hardly anybody seems to know that, they just think it's a Jinja 2 that doesn't do what they want.
Production rules are remarkably effective at dealing with deep asynchrony, say a process that involves some steps done by people or some steps done by humans, like a loan application being processed by a bank that has to be looked at by a loan officer. They could be an answer to the async comm problems in the web browser. See also complex events processing.
Production rules could be a more disciplined way to address the issues addressed by stored procedures in databases.
I've written systems where production rules are used in the control plane to set up and tear down data pipelines with multiple phases in a way that can exploit the opportunistic parallelism that can be found in sprawling commercial batch jobs. (The Jena folks told me what I was doing wasn't supported but I'd spent a lot of time with the source code and there was no problem.)