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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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