- From: Chris Bizer <chris@bizer.de>
- Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 10:13:38 +0100
- To: "RDF Interest Group" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "Jamie Pitts" <jamie@semanticwave.com>
Hi Jamie, > I am investigating the advantages and disadvantages of four programming > languages in developing RDF and OWL applications: perl, python, php, > and java. The main advantage of using PHP is that it is installed on 15 million web-servers (http://www.php.net/usage.php). Thus using PHP and a pure PHP RDF library, you can just drop your application on most public ISP's webservers and it is working. The disadvantage is that PHP is rather slow, compared to languages like java. Shelley Powers did a similar language comparison in her O'Reilly book "Practical RDF", but her results are outdated by now, because the APIs have developed further. An interesting up-to-date comparison of the RDF parsers for the different languages is found at http://www.w3.org/2003/11/results/rdf-core-tests Chris http://www.bizer.de http://www.wiwiss.fu-berlin.de/suhl/bizer/rdfapi/index.html
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