Neo wrote:
>>Wanna know what's always bothered me about the way we describe
>>hierarchies? We call the predecessor and successor parent and child and
>>then throw in the autogenesis rule: "A child can have only one parent."
>>There are very few children with only one parent... WTF do we use those
>>terms?
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> I think hierarchy was originally was related to the power structure
> among preists. May be the emphasis on one parent came from there.
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>>Go for it all! Do real graphs!! Don't think, "I'll figure out hierarchies first, then retrofit whatever it might take to do graphs."
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> Do you consider graphs and networks to be the same or different?
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Yes.
Received on Tue Dec 19 2006 - 00:18:58 CST
