Re: [RIF] [UCR]: What is the RIF (revisited) --> changing vendor rule languages from Francois Bry on 2006-02-10 (public-rif-wg@w3.org from February 2006)

From: Francois Bry <bry@ifi.lmu.de>
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2006 08:45:44 +0100
Cc: public-rif-wg@w3.org
Message-ID: <43EC44A8.6030301@ifi.lmu.de>

Vincent, Paul D wrote:

>I *rarely* come across IT project staff who learnt a rule based approach / rule language at university, and have *never* had any requests for new rule language features like disjunctive conclusions (which are probably irrelevant for this particular class of rule engines anyway).
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I submit the hypothesis that this is because of rule language users not 
thinking globally: Integrity constraints often have the form all XYZ (A 
=> (B or C)).

I beleive thatr, whatever it is, RIF will contribute to make people 
think morte globally. THis already has often happend on the WEb and with 
W3C recommendations.

-- 
Francois

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