Michael - (01)
>
> your example becomes more and more specific and challenging :-) Yes, if all
> you have is the code, you are in trouble and SW technologies are not a magic
> bullet for solving it.
> (02)
Welcome to the world of legacy systems. (03)
I hope against hope that somewhere in the SW stack of tools there just might be
something to help with
understanding legacy systems. (04)
It's a very SMALL hope. (05)
What I do see is SW creating yet another tangled layer of undocumented, poorly
understood systems. (06)
I've been attending monthly MIT SW meetings for 4+ years. Once, by chance, I
did catch TBL himself saying to the
audience that "Semantic Web" was a clever marketing label, but that in reality,
"linked data" would be a more
appropriate description since there really isn't anything special about
semantics in the SW. (07)
As you may have noticed, my passion is for a process—tool assisted, but
requiring human knowledge at the beginnings
—to extract & make formal the MENSA_FL --> MEssage Notify Stop Action Flag
--> "a collection of dunning flags"
process. (08)
Does "dunning" have a German meaning? It means the process to send someone a
series of (increasingly firm) bills to
collect a debt. R.G. Dun was an early (1840s) credit rating business here in
the States & eventually merged to become
Dun & Bradstreet, which survives to this day. (09)
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> -------Original Message-------
> From: Michael Brunnbauer <brunni@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: [ontolog-forum] <ontolog-forum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: Re: [ontolog-forum] Amazon vs. IBM: Big Blue meets match in battle
>for the cloud
> Sent: 2013-07-27 08:50
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>
> Hello David,
>
> your example becomes more and more specific and challenging :-) Yes, if all
> you have is the code, you are in trouble and SW technologies are not a magic
> bullet for solving it.
>
> Regards,
>
> Michael Brunnbauer
>
> On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 10:44:17AM -0400, David Eddy wrote:
> > Michael -
> >
> > On Jul 26, 2013, at 9:13 AM, Michael Brunnbauer wrote:
> >
> > > distributed in the heads of two experts for one or the other system.
> >
> > Let us assume the experts are not readily available...
> >
> > - I'm too green to formulate a coherent question
> >
> > - experts do not like to be pestered by clueless newbie questions
> >
> > - experts are simply too busy
> >
> >
> > The "knowledge" that has trickled down to me is as most technical
>documentation severely stripped of useful
> > context & content.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > once you have discovered that M0760 and MENSA-FL are the same
> >
> > That's the hard part... how are M0760 & MENSA-FL discovered to be the same?
> >
> > Remember, we're looking at a data structure with 1700 data elements &
>analysts/programmers are pawing over
this stuff on a regular basis.
> >
> > In theory there should be documentation... but situations like this
>typically come down to: "the code is the
documentation."
> >
> > - David
> >
>
> >
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