greiner%utai%toronto.CSNET@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA (Russell Greiner) (02/25/86)
From: Russell Greiner <greiner%utai%toronto.csnet@CSNET-RELAY.ARPA> > Date: Tue, 4 Feb 86 15:46:28 EST > From: munnari!goanna.oz!wjb@seismo.CSS.GOV (Warwick Bolam) > Subject: Correction to correction to name of MRS > > [...] > Is there anyone who REALLY knows what MRS stands for? I have a number of > MRS documents and NONE of them says "MRS stand for ..." > [...] Years ago, Mike genesereth, Russ greiner and dave Smith got together, along with some other illustrious researchers, and decided to create a new and better representation language. To achieve our original objective of modifiability, the Modifiable Representation System was born. When we noticed that the only thing truly modifiable about it was its name, it was rechristened the Meta-level Representation System. As this, too, seemed a bit misleading, we considered several other names. Soon, we were forced to realize that we had an inherently Misnamed Representation System, which still seems its best name. (Of course, if this name really is appropriate then it is, in fact, inappropriate. That, in turn, means it is not misnamed, which means it is misnamed, which ...) [Apology: The story above is basically correct; only the names have been changed ...] Russ Greiner University of Toronto (formerly of Stanford University).