Re: [seweb-list] Re: A discussion: Is semantic web an old fashioned idea? Is it bubble, unworthy or an interesting research area - Post your comments

Jon Hanna <[email protected]> Fri, 18 Jun 2004 03:22:04 +0100

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Quoting "John F. Sowa" <[email protected]>:

> Every compiler has to maintain a symbol table to support those
> features, and XSLT does not support symbol tables.

I'm pretty sure you could fake it. I'm pretty sure you'd drive yourself insane
though.

> The 1959 language called LISP was the most successful platform
> for supporting new languages that anyone has ever invented.
> Lex and YACC only support syntax, but LISP has been used to
> implement any semantics anyone could imagine.  It is sad that
> the W3C did not adopt LISP or at least something with equivalent
> power for supporting language design.

I think LISP inspired the way collections are represented in RDF.

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