Language and Anglican Canon Law – Dabbling Briefly into Another Legal World

A Door into Another World

Is it possible to design programs which each user can change according to his preferences? Not an illusion of such a thing that adaptive interface provides but really an interface ruled by users? What is the main problem of such design and what is the solution to this problem? This short article gives a glimpse into the theory discussed in the book “The World of Movable Objects”. Any article ha...

Canon Law and Ecclesiology II

Chaplains in Canon Law and contemporary practice.

anon law defines a chaplain as “a priest to whom is entrusted in a stable manner the pastoral care, at least in part, of some community or special group of Christ’s faithful, to be exercised in accordance with universal and particular law” (Canon 564). The law establishes the chaplain as a canonical figure in the person of a priest who is accountable to the diocesan bishop. A deacon cannot be n...

The Canon Law as a Legal System - Function, Obligation, and Sanction

pursuit of justice was allowed to overshadow the necessities of the concrete pursuit of justice through the mechanics of a legal system. The same didacticism affected other aspects of the canonical system, albeit not always in as obvious ways. We see it, for instance, in the area of appellate procedure where the canon law seems to show less concern than either the Roman law or the medieval Engl...

The Canon Score Language

Canon is both a notation for musical scores and a programming language. Canon offers a combination of declarative style and a powerful abstraction capability which allows a very high-level notation for sequences of musical events and structures. Transformations are operators that can adjust common parameters such as loudness or duration. Transformations can be nested and time-varying, and their...