- From: Furniss, Peter <Peter.Furniss@choreology.com>
- Date: Mon, 2 Jun 2003 10:38:55 +0100
- To: "Francis McCabe" <fgm@fla.fujitsu.com>
- Cc: <www-ws-arch@w3.org>
Reading this discussion, I could not resist: > -----Original Message----- > From: Francis McCabe [mailto:fgm@fla.fujitsu.com] ... > That way you end up with the pretty(?) diagrams, but using guillemots > <> everywhere. In another sense, Guillemots are birds, one of whose (extinct) species was the flightless Great Auk, which was the original "penguin". Taxonomically, the Great Auk is counted as a bird (and as a guillemot) because it shares many properties with the other birds and even more with the other guillemots. That's not very helpful, but I'm not sure that the "real" taxonomy approach, of admitting one is trying to retrospectively classify things that exist independently of the classifier, isn't sometimes useful in our work. Peter ------------------------------------------ Peter Furniss Chief Scientist, Choreology Ltd Cohesions 1.0 (TM) Business transaction management software for application coordination web: http://www.choreology.com email: peter.furniss@choreology.com phone: +44 20 7670 1679 direct: +44 20 7670 1783 mobile: +44 7951 536168 13 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2JX
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