>There is always a meta-architecture. It's just a question of whether system builders are conscious of it.
Thomas, perhaps you don't intend humor, but gems like this are what make reading your posts both enlightening and entertaining, even for someone at my distance. On Mon, Apr 8, 2013 at 8:06 AM, Thomas Beale < thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com> wrote: > > I am always somewhat surprised as well. Thanks by the way for your > clarifying notes, that is exactly how I would summarise the discussions. > > - thomas > > > On 07/04/2013 22:08, Randolph Neall wrote: > >> Hi Thomas, >> I'm surprised that at this advanced stage of openEHR's maturity you'd >> still have to defend concepts like these, which are self-evident. Your >> architecture, or something closely resembling it, is actually the only path >> to (1) computability, (2) shareability, and (3) coherent and maintainable >> program code. Ultimately the real enemy is chaos, and that's precisely what >> you get unless someone detects and names the universal patterns amidst the >> diversity, and structures program code to conform to such patterns. I'm not >> clear why this should be controversial. >> This discussion is now dividing into two unrelated branches: (1) the >> desirability of consensus around the content of data model, and (2) whether >> the model itself, whether widely agreed to or not, should embody a >> multi-level abstraction hierarchy permitting code and logic reuse at its >> more abstract levels. Both branches, wrongly argued, are a direct >> invitation to chaos. From what I understand of it, openEHR is an attempt, >> in both regards, to avoid chaos. I can only wish you success against the >> two challenges. >> > > > ______________________________**_________________ > openEHR-technical mailing list > openEHR-technical at lists.**openehr.org<openEHR-technical at > lists.openehr.org> > http://lists.openehr.org/**mailman/listinfo/openehr-** > technical_lists.openehr.org<http://lists.openehr.org/mailman/listinfo/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org> > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.openehr.org/pipermail/openehr-technical_lists.openehr.org/attachments/20130408/84293f5b/attachment.html>
