Re: strawman concise syntax (was Re: [OWL-S] new IOPE example #1)

> > [Bijan Parsia]
> > A current version of the proposal (which is a bit Lispy at the moment):
> >     http://www.daml.org/services/owl-s/1.0/surface.pdf
> 
> [Danny Ayers] 
> The choice of a Lisp-like syntax is interesting. Who the target audience 
> for this? If it's 'old school' krep folks, then it's bound to do well. 
> However if the aim is to get web developers to use it, then I'd 
> anticipate resistance, and would have thought swapping the braces for 
> angle brackets (a la OWL Presentation Syntax) would be good politics ;-)

Could you clarify the distinction you're making here?  Obviously the
RDF syntax _is_ an angle-bracket notation.  So I'm assuming you're
alluding to the possibility of an XML dialect for OWL-S that would
essentially duplicate the Lispy version, but with fatter, pointier
parentheses.  Is that correct?

                                             -- Drew

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                                   -- Drew McDermott
                                      Yale Computer Science Department

Received on Thursday, 1 April 2004 11:54:18 UTC