- From: Toby A Inkster <tai@g5n.co.uk>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jan 2009 00:22:36 +0000
- To: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
Dmitry Ulanov wrote: > Yesterday, Richard announced a new any23 project [1]. It's a different > question why we need a new one. I have an idea (thanks for Yaroslav > Markin). > Why not to implement such converters in Ragel [2] in general form > and than > translate them into different programming languages instead of just > Java? I > don't like Java and prefer Ruby, for an example. The question could be turned around and asked, why do you prefer to write in Ruby? Why don't you write in a general form which can be converted into Java and then hooked into Any23? Different people prefer different programming languages; and many people prefer several languages in different situations. You're never going to get everyone to agree to use the same programming language. My project <http://buzzword.org.uk/swignition/> is pretty similar to any23 in concept (i.e. aims at converting pretty much anything and everything to RDF) and is written in Perl. But you don't need to be a Perl programmer to use it because you can run it as a background daemon, and then your program (written in whatever language you like) can connect to it via TCP, tweak its options, pass a URI, and get back RDF/JSON (or RDF/XML, Notation 3, etc). I've only briefly skimmed its documentation today, but I imagine that Any23 has a similar facility. -- Toby A Inkster <mailto:mail@tobyinkster.co.uk> <http://tobyinkster.co.uk>
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