- From: Richard Newman <r.newman@reading.ac.uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Dec 2005 13:31:33 -0800
- To: Russell Duhon <fugu13@mac.com>
- Cc: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@microsoft.com>, semantic-web@w3.org
> I find this a surprising assertion, as object oriented, strongly, > statically typed code is hugely important in enterprise > programming, whereas Lisp is used but rarely. Personally, I view > RDF as more along the lines of Python or similar important dynamic, > strongly typed languages -- we can play fast and loose with it in > many ways, using duck typing, but the types are still there to > exploit when useful. N.B. that this is very true of Lisp, too. Considering I'm using Lisp + RDF in an enterprise setting, I consider myself qualified on this issue, and I agree with the original assertion. I've been doing a lot of work in this area, and the OO/duck-typing analogy is promising. -R
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