[Python-Dev] Parrot -- should life imitate satire?

[Eric S. Raymond]

Jeremy Hylton <jeremy@zope.com>:
> What is a type ontology?  The definition of ontology I'm familiar with
> is too broad to be useful in understanding what you're getting at.
> I've never heard the technical term "type ontology".

I first heard it in connection with cross-language RPC.  The "type ontology"
of a language or protocol is its implicit theory of what kinds of things 
there are in the universe.  It's actually a pretty reasonable specialization
of the term "ontology" in philosophy.
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		<a href="http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/">Eric S. Raymond</a>

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which he cares about more than he does about his personal safety, 
is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made 
and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself. 
	-- John Stuart Mill, writing on the U.S. Civil War in 1862