- From: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 17:49:05 -0500
- To: "Ron Daniel" <rdaniel@interwoven.com>
- Cc: w3c-rdfcore-wg@w3.org
>Ron: >> > Canonicalizing the literal just makes things hard for the >> > DPH, which will in turn limit the use of RDF. >> >> DPH ? Perl Hacker ? > >Desperate Perl Hacker. Origin of term seems to be Jon Bosak in >the original XML group, exhorting others to keep things simple >so that the DPH could write simple code to operate on XML as >strings and get reasonable results. One example of this is >that end tags must contain the element type, not just </>. >Longer, but less need use a stack to keep track of scope. >Didn't really agree with it at the time, but I do now. Wow. In the year 2001, fundamental design decisions in programing languages are critically influenced by the need to protect low-level hackers from the burden of implementing a simple stack. IBM 704 assembler beats LISP after 45 years and about ten (twelve?) orders of magnitude increase in processing efficiency. To hell with the DPH. If he can't parse a nested bracket structure, then he doesn't deserve the outrageous salary he is probably earning; tell him to take up gardening instead. Pat -- --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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