Re: A Rough Guide to Notation3

>>>Paul Prescod said:
> RDF/XML: "the machine efficiency of XML with the readability of ASN.1"
> ;)

Blame XML for XML's efficiency, not applications of it.  So following
you, I'll pick some other random targets to poke fun at:

  SOAP: "the machine efficiency of XML with the readability of N3"

Apologies to N3 for that ;)

> If it isn't intended for human consumption then it should be
> machine-optimized binary. 

Why not forward this comment to xml-dev?  They love talking about the
efficiency of XML, binary XML and have multi-month threads about it
now and then.

So how about protocols for machines such as email, HTTP which are not
machine-optimized binary?  That was a major reason the Internet and
Web won over earlier systems.  Such as those built with ASN.1 for
"efficiency" although having no "readability".  Promoting that is
going backwards.

Cheers

Dave

Received on Friday, 23 August 2002 15:00:35 UTC