Re: Yet another serialization format?

* [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.

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.

That this might be possible is argued by analogy to modern programming
languages that seem to do just this.

Cheers,
-w
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