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Abstraction in Science, Mathematics, Software, and Markup

• From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
• To: "xml-dev@lists.xml.org" <xml-dev@lists.xml.org>
• Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2011 17:57:40 -0500

Hi Folks,

I am in awe of the power of abstraction.

I wrote a short description of how abstraction is applied in the fields of Science, Mathematics, Software, and Markup:

http://www.xfront.com/Abstraction-in-Science-Mathematics-Software-and-Markup.pdf

I welcome your comments, particularly if you can identify other mechanisms for abstraction in markup.

/Roger

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