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Re: Data vs. Process was Re: Vocabulary Combination

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• Subject: Re: Data vs. Process was Re: Vocabulary Combination ...
• From: Miles Sabin <miles@m...>
• Date: Sat, 31 May 2003 21:45:10 +0100
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Jonathan Borden wrote,
> Your writing is illustrative of what might be described as a
> predeliction among programmers for describing processes (that's what
> an algorithm describes -- a process).
>
> The problem with this analysis is that the world isn't _only_ about
> processes and processing -- there exists a declarative approach which
> has a fundamental fit with XML -- which fundamentally is, or
> describes, a data format (not a process description).
>
> The ontologic approach is such a declarative approach -- for example,
> nowhere in the OWL specifications is *any* writing about a "processing
> model". You may consider such ontologic descriptions as specious
> abstractions, but the whole point of this excercize is that much can
> be done *without specifying any processing*.

Horror! Programmers prefer processes (which at least move around a bit) 
to cold dead propositions!

Perhaps when you're done with the Tractatus you could move on to the 
Investigations ;-)

Cheers,


Miles (who as a rule *makes* or *breaks* or *follows* rules rather than 
merely contemplates them)

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