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• To: Dave Pawson <dpawson@n...>
• Subject: Re: The triples datamodel -- was Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Sun, 6 Jun 2004 16:23:06 -0400
• Cc: XML Developer List <xml-dev@l...>
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At 8:33 PM +0100 6/6/04, Dave Pawson wrote:

>>Absolutely not. The fact is computers aren't that smart, and robust 
>>systems allow and prepare for human intervention. In practice, most 
>>debugged and deployed systems rarely require human intervention of 
>>this sort.
>
>I've not met many such perfect systems.

The systems don't need to be perfect.That's why I wrote "rarely" 
instead of "never". Pretty much all systems do require intervention 
of this sort, but rarely. The vast majority of transactions go 
through without a hitch. It's only the rare one that needs manual 
assistance.

-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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