On 11/10/10 1:30 PM, Christopher Menzel wrote: > On Nov 10, 2010, at 12:16 PM, Alan Ruttenberg wrote: >> On Wed, Nov 10, 2010 at 10:14 AM, Kingsley Idehen >> <kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote: >> >>> Alan / John: maybe we could use this thread to arrive at obvious common >>> ground re. data integration and the diminishing need for a syntax level >>> lingua franca. >> Kingsley includes me presumably because of a response to an earlier >> message, not copied to this list. >> http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-lod/2010Nov/0322.html >> >> I think there *is* a need for a lingua franca for intercomputer >> communication. But I support the idea that there should be alternative >> syntaxes (as long as they can be clearly translated to the lingua >> franca). > Well, that is pretty much exactly the idea behind Common Logic. It is a semantic framework that supports an unlimited number of alternative languages -- although it does not privilege any particular language (a.k.a., CL dialect) over any other (although the KIF-like dialect CLIF is sort of a default). > > Chris Menzel > > Yes! Reply primarily to re-connect thread to the correct LOD list :-) -- Regards, Kingsley Idehen President& CEO OpenLink Software Web: http://www.openlinksw.com Weblog: http://www.openlinksw.com/blog/~kidehen Twitter/Identi.ca: kidehen
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