On 13/12/06, Steve Bennett <stevagewp(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Purely and simply, categories are useful for many
things they weren't
designed for or intended to do. Remember, they were a cute hack
invented by Magnus a couple of years ago in the face of some pretty
serious skepticism.
To give credit where credit is due, categories were actually invented
a decade ago by Stan Silver for the WikiWikiWeb [1]. The difficulties
of indicating "isness" and hierarchical category structure have been a
topic of much discussion ever since. [2,3]
[1]
http://web.archive.org/web/19961129234150/c2.com/cgi/wiki?AboutCategoriesAn…
[2]
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WikiIsNotaTree
[3]
http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?LimitsOfHierarchies
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Earle Martin
http://downlode.org/
http://purl.org/net/earlemartin/