[sc34wg3] Draft Reference Model

[Sam Hunting]

On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Jan Algermissen wrote:

<snip>
> 
> Example:
> 
> "'Hot' and 'cold' are opposites"
> 
> This would be modeled in the graph like this:
> 
>                                 
>                                x2
>                               /
>                              C-----R2
> 

<snip>

Again, I would prefer to say "expressed" rather than "modeled" because I
am not sure that modeling is in the scope of the RM (at least when
modeling is understood as a current software engineering practice. Then
again, if modeling == abstraction, well, then indeed one does model with
the RM. But who would choose to model in assembly language when they had a
language more fit to the purpose?[1])

Sam Hunting
eTopicality, Inc.

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