Re: How do RDF and Formal Logic fit together?

> [Pat Hayes]
> Why in an RDF graph syntax? (What is so special about RDF? Its one 
> among thousands of possible notations, and its not a particularly 
> good one. The limitations of simple graphs as a notation have been 
> known for about a century, so why would we want to deliberately go 
> back to the stone age to find a basis for the world wide web?)

While linear syntax are nestable (which is nice), graph syntaxes allow
peices of any size to be added & removed without disturbing other
peices.  Think of Linda tuple spaces [1].  That's a pretty nice
property to have in a distributed system.

    -- sandro

[1] http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/Linda/linda.html