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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by dozzie on Thursday May 17, 2018 @02:50PM (#17094268)
> It's not "maths" like arithmentic but it's "maths" like graph theory

It's less like graph theory and more like inversion of control: an architecture, not a set of theorems and their proofs. Even Burgess' own book you mentioned is nothing like a mathematical handbook.

I'm a great fan of Mark Burgess and his promise theory, but calling it a mathematical theory or a mathematical domain is simply incorrect.

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Re:The sad state of sysadmin in the age of containers (2015) by atsaloli on Friday May 18, 2018 @09:48PM (#17106185)
I hear you.

The book I mentioned (Thinking in Promises) is the introductory-level public book.

https://www.amazon.com/Promise-Theory-Principles-Application... is the heavy-duty scientific stuff.

"In Search of Certainty" (https://www.amazon.com/Search-Certainty-Science-Information-...) is somewhere in-between.

I would say promise theory is its own kind of logic and notation. Thanks for the correction @dozzie.

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