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Why was it rejected by ESOP?

Well, if you want to know what ESOP rejection reviews look like: http://phlegmaticprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/reviews...

and the response to these reviews here: http://phlegmaticprogrammer.wordpress.com/2010/11/21/respons...

Possibly because they hand-waved away a lot of formal specification of their solution. For example, there was no attempt to analyze the complexity of the generated rules trees.

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