- From: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 03 Feb 2001 19:25:06 -0600
- To: Deborah Mcguinness <dlm@ksl.stanford.edu>
- CC: Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>, RDF Logic list <www-rdf-logic@w3.org>, Ian Horrocks <horrocks@cs.man.ac.uk>
It occured to me the other day that the choice of "concrete" for integers, strings, and the like vs. "abstract" for stuff you might want to model like people, places, and things is sort of ironic: what's concrete about an integer? What's abstract about a shoe? It's kinda like the X windows system wherein, counterintuitively, the wimpy little box you sit at is the server and the million dollar supercomputer over there is the client. -- Dan Connolly, W3C http://www.w3.org/People/Connolly/
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