WebMath: Fwd: [om-a] critique of OpenMath

[June Lester]

 ...  by Richard Fateman.  From om-announce at openmath.org.

June
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>
>I've drafted a reaction to the latest SIGSAM Bulletin,
>collection of OpenMath-related documents.  I would
>welcome comments on it, before sending it (perhaps
>to SIGSAM Bulletion?)
>T
>he over-riding
>criticism is that it is naive to believe that
>one of the major problems of software engineering
>today, namely software re-use, will be solved
>by the OpenMath approach.
>
>In particular there is no reason to believe
>the mechanisms (phrasebooks and CDs) will scale.
>
>see http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~fateman/papers/openmathcrit.txt
>for the ascii text (only about 4 pages long, but kind of
>long to send/post everywhere).
>
>Richard Fateman
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