- From: Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 11:44:18 +0100
- To: Jim Hendler <hendler@cs.umd.edu>
- Cc: "Jeremy Carroll" <jjc@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, "webont" <www-webont-wg@w3.org>
On July 19, Jim Hendler writes: > > At 4:51 PM +0100 7/19/02, Ian Horrocks wrote: > >On July 18, Jim Hendler writes: > > snip > > > > >My stance all along is that we should design OWL so that it has > >certain desirable computational properties, in particular that it is > >POSSIBLE to implement sound and complete (and terminating) > >reasoners. If we don't care about the computational properties of the > >language, then it is hard to see why we are bothering to restrict > >ourselves to such a relatively clumsy and inexpressive language - why > >not go straight to full FOL (I can hear Pat saying "amen to that"), or > >something even more expressive? > > snip > > Ian - I owe you an apology - I was frustrated over some of the things > in our WG that just seemed to be going round and round, and I > unloaded on you VERY unfairly. You have been one of the more > involved people in the WG, you have consistently provided important > information, you have a principled approach to your arguments, and > you've shown a willingness to "live with" some things that you don't > particularly like. If we all would work as hard on this as you do, > and would be as careful in our work, then the WG would be even more > productive than it is. > I apologize to you for my remarks, and to the whole WG for wasting their time > Sincerely, > Jim H Thanks. Much appreciated. Ian > > > > -- > Professor James Hendler hendler@cs.umd.edu > Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 > Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) > Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) > http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendler
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