From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2008-12-24T11:34:17+09:00
Subject: Re: Name that data structure!

Clifford Heath wrote:
> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>> Joel VanderWerf wrote:
>>> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>>>> Ian Hobson wrote:
>>>>> Tom Cloyd wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I now can specify node relationships. Some examples:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> .n Tom .r is a .n poor programmer
>>>>>> .n apple r. is not .n bridge building material
>>>>>> .n e=mc**2 .r could be .n true
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Obviously, these aren't sentences, so we do not use articles, 
>>>>>> conjunctions, and the like.
>>> You may find concept analysis interesting, too:
>>>
>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_concept_analysis
>
> While you guys are contemplating this stuff, you might like to think 
> about
> playing with my ActiveFacts gem, recently released in stealth mode (only
> some functionality is present). "gem install activefacts", and read more
> at <http://dataconstellation.com/ActiveFacts>.
>
> Fact-oriented (or semantic) modeling, has been around for decades, and 
> there
> have been interesting GUI tools for it also - but until now, no textual
> modeling language. That's the gap the ActiveFact's CQL language seeks to
> fill, in addition to becoming a viable replacement for SQL, as presented
> recently at OSDC.
>
> ActiveFacts also contains a cute Ruby API for representing data and 
> models
> in this form.
>
> More (much more) to follow...
>
> Clifford Heath, Data Constellation.
>
>
Clifford,

This is an amazing thing you've done. I need to work my way carefully 
through your language, but the diagrams you provide are immediately 
clear to me. This is exactly what I'm trying to do. You very much 
farther along. I'm going to study your work very carefully. Thanks - for 
the work and for directing us to it. I'm a bit speechless at this point...

t.

-- 

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Tom Cloyd, MS MA, LMHC - Private practice Psychotherapist
Bellingham, Washington, U.S.A: (360) 920-1226
<< tc@tomcloyd.com >> (email)
<< TomCloyd.com >> (website) 
<< sleightmind.wordpress.com >> (mental health weblog)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~