Chris Menzel wrote: (01)
> Perhaps first-order logic isn't for the "average developer or data
> modeler" the way that a lot of useful higher mathematics isn't for the
> "average engineer"?
> (02)
(The vampire craze seems to have encouraged a general sharpening of stakes.) (03)
My wife's long-standing characterization of many respected professions is: (04)
Most professionals are like auto mechanics: 20% of them really know
their trade and can solve complex problems and typically assume that
their colleagues can. 60% of them can do the routine work of the trade
well, and most of them realize, perhaps after a few failures, when the
problem is beyond their skill, and respect the professionals who can
solve it. The remaining 20% are marginal or incompetent in their trade,
and assume that no one else is any better at it. (05)
First-order logic is therefore only for the top 20% of data modelers,
not the average... :-) (06)
-Ed
> -chris
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