- From: Kingsley Idehen <kidehen@openlinksw.com>
- Date: Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:24:18 +0100
- To: public-linked-json@w3.org
On 7/1/11 2:19 PM, William Waites wrote: > * [2011-06-30 20:52:40 +0100] Kingsley Idehen<kidehen@openlinksw.com> écrit: > ] > ] Programming is about orchestrated Create, Update, Delete operations > ] against Data via Addresses. > ] > ] Programming languages facilitate the above. > ] > ] Programming languages interface with host operating systems. > ] > ] Linked Data is about data representation that leverages "data access by > ] reference". > ] > ] REST is about a form of CRUD orchestration against network addresses > ] (URLs), where data representation is negotiable and addresses hackable, > ] courtesy of URL abstraction. > ] > ] REST and Linked Data is a form of Distributed Computing with Data > ] Objects that many efforts failed to deliver in the past e.g., CORBA. > ] > ] It is good old basic stuff but at InterWeb (network) scales. > > I agree with all this. My point was that modern programs (i.e. > compilers and interpreters for languages like Java, Python, etc) tend > to hide the housekeeping details (pointer and maybe http-range-14 > types of indirections) from the user (programmer) because doing the > housekeeping by hand is both tedious and error-prone. > Yes! > If JSON-LD and wider work can provide a way to similarly manage this > kind of housekeeping automatically without the programmer worrying > about it then that's a good thing. +1 That means keeping RDF out of its narrative. I say this becuase RDFers will know what to do with JSON-LD resources. It also means RDF nuances don't interfere with bootstrap. > That this might be possible is argued by analogy to modern programming > languages that seem to do just this. +1 > Cheers, > -w -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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