- From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@ibiblio.org>
- Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 10:44:40 -0700
"This specification defines an abstract language for describing documents and applications, and some APIs for interacting with in-memory representations of resources that use this language." The phrase "abstract language" concerns me. It's not clear to me that a language can be abstract, nor is it clear to me what this phrase refers to, especially since it seems to be distinguished from the "concrete syntaxes that can be used to transmit resources that use this abstract language, two of which are defined in this specification." Perhaps there's some sort of abstract data model or information model here; but I don't believe that the word "language" is appropriate to describe this. Language as normally understood is a collection of actual words or symbols, written or spoken. It is not a collection of abstract concepts, at least not in any definition of the term I was able to find. http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&safe=off&q=define%3Alanguage&aq=f&oq=&aqi=g10 -- Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo at ibiblio.org
Received on Thursday, 6 August 2009 10:44:40 UTC