- From: Jon Hanna <jon@hackcraft.net>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:22:04 +0100
- To: "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>
- Cc: Nick Gibbins <nmg@ecs.soton.ac.uk>, Miltiadis Lytras <mdl@eltrun.gr>, "kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl" <kaw@swi.psy.uva.nl>, "acl@opus.cs.columbia.edu" <acl@opus.cs.columbia.edu>, "www-rdf-interest@w3.org" <www-rdf-interest@w3.org>, "www-annotation@w3.org" <www-annotation@w3.org>, "ontology@fipa.org" <ontology@fipa.org>, "seweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at" <seweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at>, "irlist-editor@acm.org" <irlist-editor@acm.org>, "ontoweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at" <ontoweb-list@www1-c703.uibk.ac.at>, "daml-all@daml.org" <daml-all@daml.org>, "ontology@cs.umbc.edu" <ontology@cs.umbc.edu>
Quoting "John F. Sowa" <sowa@bestweb.net>: > Every compiler has to maintain a symbol table to support those > features, and XSLT does not support symbol tables. I'm pretty sure you could fake it. I'm pretty sure you'd drive yourself insane though. > The 1959 language called LISP was the most successful platform > for supporting new languages that anyone has ever invented. > Lex and YACC only support syntax, but LISP has been used to > implement any semantics anyone could imagine. It is sad that > the W3C did not adopt LISP or at least something with equivalent > power for supporting language design. I think LISP inspired the way collections are represented in RDF. -- Jon Hanna <http://www.hackcraft.net/> "…it has been truly said that hackers have even more words for equipment failures than Yiddish has for obnoxious people." - jargon.txt
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