- From: Damian Steer <pldms@mac.com>
- Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 14:40:22 +0000
- Cc: Semantic Web <semantic-web@w3.org>
On 26 Feb 2010, at 06:24, Parnell Springmeyer wrote: > Why are so many of the mature tools and libraries for RDF, OWL, and > Topic Maps built atop Java? I know Python has some great tools and the > Redland libs are mature too, but they pale in comparison to the number > of tools built using Java. Java is a big teaching and commercial language. It has a huge number of libraries. It's also big in the free / opensource world (see apache projects). Where the cause and effect arrows go here I can't say, but there's a large and lively ecology. Note that this isn't the java language so much as the java platform: there are many languages available (see jruby, clojure, scala, groovy, jython, various schemes and lisps...). > It also surprises me because the JVM is slow in comparison to compiled > LISP (RDF expressed in S-Expressions?) and many other alternatives... I'm pretty sure the internet has a discussion on the already. > I've been a long time follower and partial implementer of the Semantic > Web in my projects but this one point perplexes me (it's also because > I'm not a Java programer). Try clojure? Damian
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