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Re: Argument: Software design is important, data design is not

• From: Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka@gmail.com>
• To: "Timothy W. Cook" <tim@mlhim.org>
• Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2013 15:17:08 +0000

and I would say that a programming environment power is a function of
it's ability to represent more complex data structures.

On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 2:59 PM, Timothy W. Cook <tim@mlhim.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 12, 2013 at 12:32 PM, Costello, Roger L. <costello@mitre.org> wrote:
>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> An argument:
> ...
>> What's wrong with that argument?
>>
>
> Uhmmm, everything.
>
> Software can churn away but without the correct data in the correct
> syntactic format along with discoverable semantics[1]  for human and
> machine processing, you will get wrong or at the very best uncertain
> information output. Data that represents information is the reason we
> have software for processing.
>
>
> [1] different people in different contexts have different ideas about
> what data may mean
>
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  • Argument: Software design is important, data design is not
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Argument: Software design is important, data design is not
    • From: "Timothy W. Cook" <tim@mlhim.org>