Rob - (01)
On Feb 14, 2010, at 2:09 AM, Rob Freeman wrote: (02)
> If it is my plea that we stop disputing names for things, I think that
> applies even more to computer software.
>
> There is even less need to use fixed labels in computer software.
> Certainly not at the application level.
> (03)
Please to explain this. (04)
It has been my experience that there are names/labels EVERYWHERE in
computers & software... variable names, column names on reports,
folders, files, subroutines, methods, programs, schemas, ad
infinitum. When names/labels are done poorly (which is most of the
time), then it makes understanding more difficult. (05)
I would ask... if one does not have fixed labels at the application
level (I'm meaning: in the programs and all the artifacts around the
programs that are the application), how is a human going to make
sense of what the software is doing? (06)
Are you saying that names/labels are not relevant to ontology efforts
& get in the way of ontology discussions? (07)
Or is there some means to avoid opaque, difficult-to-understand,
ambiguous labels in software? (08)
I am fully aware, as John Sowa points out, that computers actually
use symbol tables, but such base+displacement "labeling" is seriously
human unfriendly. (09)
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