- From: Peter Crowther <peter.crowther@networkinference.com>
- Date: Fri, 31 Aug 2001 17:08:28 +0100
- To: "'Narahari, Sateesh'" <Sateesh_Narahari@jdedwards.com>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
[Sateesh, I'm CC'ing my reply to the list because I'm eating my words and might as well change my position publicly :-)] > From: Narahari, Sateesh [mailto:Sateesh_Narahari@jdedwards.com] > Do you have an example in mind, that can't be expressed in > java/c/c++/c#-ish syntax?. > > Sateesh Narahari > Sr Research Engineer On reflection, no, I don't --- although to an extent it depends on how 'ish'. At least C and C++ (and, I am reliably assured, Java) have the ability to handle unnamed structures. I've no doubt this ontology syntax could be defined to handle anonymous nodes in a complex structure in the same way. Numbers and other concrete datatypes would require further changes, but it seems possible. But on the whole I'd prefer a more compact syntax that is designed for the job, such as OIL. Parsers are cheap, human reading and understanding time is expensive. - Peter
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