- From: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 17:42:08 -0400
- To: Rob Shearer <Rob.Shearer@networkinference.com>
- Cc: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 02:25:30PM -0700, Rob Shearer wrote: > > a variable like "?this"? Do their expectations really matter > > so little? > > As a general note, yes. Their expectations matter very little. Fine, but *you* get to tell them that! > RDQL is > used in a tiny community and is clearly in the realm of the "proprietary > one-off language". Really? Proprietary in what sense? There's a public document describing it, multiple open source implementations, no patent encumbrances. It's neither proprietary nor one off *in any sense*. That's just misleading and false. > This is in contrast to languages like SQL and XQuery, which many large > companies have committed millions of dollars to training thousands of > consultants on (yes--"millions" and "thousands" really apply to XQuery). Bah. First, neither of them are RDF query languages. Second, so what? What does that have to do with how we spell variables? > The semantic technology insiders already using RDQL, although I'm sure > they can be ornery, have next to no inertia compared with these huge > industry powerhouses interested in employees with commodity skills. No inertia? I don't know what that means. Kendall Clark
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