- From: Vincent, Paul D <PaulVincent@fairisaac.com>
- Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 07:53:55 -0800
- To: "Dieter Fensel" <dieter.fensel@deri.org>, "Peter F. Patel-Schneider" <pfps@inf.unibz.it>, <public-rif-wg@w3.org>
+1 In our experience the 80:20 rule applies: 80% of rules will be covered by 20% of the available syntax. For the other 20% I might want to engage a specialist logician to explain to me what the rule meant anyway... Paul Vincent Fair Isaac Blaze Advisor --- Business Rule Management OMG Standards for Business Rules, PRR & BPMI mobile: +44 (0)781 493 7229 ... office: +44 (0)20 7871 7229 -----Original Message----- From: public-rif-wg-request@w3.org [mailto:public-rif-wg-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of Dieter Fensel Sent: Wednesday, February 08, 2006 2:46 PM To: Peter F. Patel-Schneider; public-rif-wg@w3.org Subject: Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited) At 09:09 AM 2/8/2006 -0500, Peter F. Patel-Schneider wrote: > > Why? We do not need a rule language that covers any possible feature > but one > > that covers 80% of the stuff that is used and useful. > >Hmm. A RIF that covers 80% of what is used and useful might actually be >totally useless, as almost every rule-set might include something that the RIF >doesn't handle. So what? You may loose something that is not very common. ---------------------------------------------------------------- Dieter Fensel, http://www.deri.org/ Tel.: +43-512-5076485/8 Skype: dieterfensel
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