- From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org>
- Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2001 14:04:53 +0100
- To: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Cc: Brian McBride <bwm@hplb.hpl.hp.com>, www-rdf-interest@w3.org
At 09:58 AM 4/13/01 -0400, Sandro Hawke wrote: >That said, I'm not sure what "the core" is. I think this is all a lot >like a programming language and its standard library or libraries. >The RDF Model is the programming language itself. Unlike most, this >one has multiple equivalent syntaxes. And the vocabularies are just >libraries, one or more of which is well enough made and useful enough >that people have little reason to re-invent it. (Still, W3C will >probably make a 2.0 some day, so one should never think of it as The >Core Vocabulary.) I generally agree with this. And I think its a widely held tenet of programming language design that the language should not define what can be done in libraries (possibly modulo some syntactic sugaring). #g ------------ Graham Klyne GK@NineByNine.org
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