Much to my regret, I have learned that what computer people call
interoperability has been corrupted into a very weak condition. Because of
that, another term has been introduced that strikes me as closer to what
unification accomplished in the sciences. It is "coherence."
Interoperability is extremely valuable for coherence, but it is not
sufficient (and might not even be necessary).
(Your terminology may vary. I always thought interoperability was what I
now have trained myself to refer to as coherence.)
This is a nit in the context of the point of this message. Thanks for
forwarding it.
-- Dennis
-----Original Message-----
From: Bernard Vatant [mailto:universimmedia@wanadoo.fr]
Sent: Friday, March 23, 2001 07:16
To: unrev-II@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [unrev-II] Tr: [xtm-wg] historical perspective about graphs
I think this message could be of some interest on this list too ...
Sorry for duplicate for those who are also on xtm-wg list ...
> Since we are in the "Big Picture" debate I'd like to add a little
historical
> perspective to Jean's intervention.
>
> What computers' people call "interoperability" is called in other older
> fields of science : "unification".
[ ... ]
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