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Sean Barker
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> John F. Sowa
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> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Please thread the discussion
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> Following is the original justification for this proposed law:
>
> http://www-ksl.stanford.edu/email-archives/srkb.messages/24.html
extract from above: (03)
"3. DARPA developed Ada as the standard for systems programming. (04)
Result: C (a language that violated nearly every one of the design
goals for Ada) became the standard for system programming." (05)
My impression was that Ada was Pascal++, but that C was really FORTRAN
75 (i.e. Fortran NOT updated by a committee, cf "A camel is a horse
designed by a committee"). The jaundiced view is that C took off because
it allowed you to program without thinking, and to get round the
constraints which good practice imposes. (06)
>
> And following is some later commentary
>
> http://www.jfsowa.com/computer/standard.htm
> The Law of Standards
>
I would suggest that the STEP series of data standards gives a rather
forceful counter example to some of the claims in the "Law of Standards"
- but the details would take this thread out of the scope of the forum,
at least until STEP converts to a description logic. (07)
> John Sowa
> (08)
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