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Re: XML CMM and ISO9000 compliance? - was A standard approach

• To: "pop3" <lbradshaw@d...>,"John Cowan" <cowan@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML CMM and ISO9000 compliance? - was A standard approach to glueing together reusableXML fragments in prose?
• From: "Bob Foster" <bob@o...>
• Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2003 23:51:02 -0500
• Cc: <xml-dev@l...>
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From: "John Cowan" <cowan@m...>
> pop3 scripsit:
>
> > Nor can I support folks in a CMM or ISO9000 shop
> > utilizing XML to any significant degree until they can show that XML is
a
> > proven best practice, by rigorous scientific proofs.
>
> What programming language can you justify by "rigorous scientific
> [meaning mathematical?] proofs"?  Scheme and Prolog, maybe.

Well, exactly. There is no such thing as a "rigorous scientific proof".
Asking for one just reveals a misunderstanding of science. You can have a
rigorous mathematical proof, or a scientific theory that agrees with
empirical observation and is consistent with other theories, but you cannot
mix the two and somehow arrive at a proof of a theory.

Bob Foster

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