- From: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 14:32:24 -0500
- To: Dan Connolly <connolly@w3.org>
- Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> > > We always walk a fine line between building things that "work" and things > > that are right (or even adequate). I think Pat is arguing (in his own > > lovable way) that the pendulum has swung too far. Of course RDF >will "work" > > one way or another. With all the hype and all the millions being thrown at > > it, how can it not? But that much volume only serves to drown out the > > voices of those who know better. Mob justice is no justice -- ten years > > from now we'll go through this all over again when we find out that RDF > > didn't "work" after all. > >Perhaps. > >But that sounds an awful lot like what folks were saying >about global hypertext in 1991. The key difference is that global hypertext was a genuinely new phenomenon in 1991. Nothing about RDF is new, it's just old ideas done badly. (Well, possibly URIs are new: but you tell me that URIs are just logical constants as far as the semantics is concerned. Or am I missing something here?) Pat --------------------------------------------------------------------- IHMC (850)434 8903 home 40 South Alcaniz St. (850)202 4416 office Pensacola, FL 32501 (850)202 4440 fax phayes@ai.uwf.edu http://www.coginst.uwf.edu/~phayes
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