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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Thanks Till. <br>
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I think your original is fine, and I didn't do a good job of
replacing it, particularly with respect to my use of
'manipulation'. <br>
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In the next edition, I do think your sentence needs to clarify the
distinction between the language and its usage (application,
function). <br>
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I've always considered language as a tool for communication; it
doesn't do anything by itself. As an analogy, I'd point to the
title of the 1979 Turing award lecture by Kenneth Iverson,
"Notation as a Tool of Thought"<br>
<ul>
<li>in computers, languages are used for communicating
functional intent (IAW commuication or programming protocols);</li>
<li>in natural language, languages are tools for communicating
pretty much everything that can be expressed (leaving the
question open as to whether gestures, facial expressions,
rhythm, timing and so on are parts of natural language). </li>
</ul>
I didn't think the expression 'language for x,y,z' properly
accommodated the concept of using it for something. The language
by itself doesn't do distributed knowledge representation, nor
knowledge representation, nor development. It can be used to do
all of those things. <br>
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On 5/17/2015 1:32 PM, Till Mossakowski wrote:<br>
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">Many thanks, Terry.<br>
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I have incorporated most of your comments and closed the issue.<br>
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I have not incorporated the change of<br>
"DOL is a language for distributed knowledge representation,
system specification and model-driven development across
multiple OMS, particularly OMS that have been formalized in
different OMS languages."<br>
into<br>
"DOL is a tool for managing and manipulating distributed
knowledge representations, system specifications, and
model-driven design/development artifacts among multiple OMS,
particularly...'',<br>
because, I think DOL is not a tool, but a language. Hence, also
"manipulating" does not fit.<br>
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Best, Till<br>
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