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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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