- From: Drew McDermott <drew.mcdermott@yale.edu>
- Date: Fri, 2 Apr 2004 18:56:02 -0500 (EST)
- To: danny666@virgilio.it
- Cc: drew.mcdermott@yale.edu, public-sws-ig@w3.org
> [Danny Ayers]
> But having looked again at the current syntax it is difficult to see how
> the same things could be expressed in XML without losing most of the
> legibility, ....
Could you point out some specific points where this would happen? My
problem is that I'm not sure what aids or hampers legibility for XML
users.
> I do think the Lispishness is likely to be offputting to
> developers familiar with e.g. C# for code, SOAP+XML for data.
Then we should adopt C# syntax for OWL-S. It's easy to snicker at
people who are easily fooled by such superficial features of a
language, but in the real world the snickerers are not the ones
laughing all the way to the bank.
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-- Drew McDermott
Yale Computer Science Department
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