- From: Sandro Hawke <sandro@w3.org>
- Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 12:52:37 -0400
- To: Pat Hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
- cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org
> [Pat Hayes]
> Why in an RDF graph syntax? (What is so special about RDF? Its one
> among thousands of possible notations, and its not a particularly
> good one. The limitations of simple graphs as a notation have been
> known for about a century, so why would we want to deliberately go
> back to the stone age to find a basis for the world wide web?)
While linear syntax are nestable (which is nice), graph syntaxes allow
peices of any size to be added & removed without disturbing other
peices. Think of Linda tuple spaces [1]. That's a pretty nice
property to have in a distributed system.
-- sandro
[1] http://cs-www.cs.yale.edu/Linda/linda.html
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