xml-dev - Re: The RDF model *is* part of the problem

[james anderson <james.anderson@mecomnet.de>]

Stefan Haustein wrote:
> 
> > The problem would arise in OOP forms where namespace structure is
> > orthogonal to class structure. CLOS, for instance, is a oo-language in
> > which slot inheritance is governed by rules for identifying names which
> > are independant of the class inheritance structure. Names (symbols) are
> > in packages and inheritance relations may be constructed among packages
> > without regard to where the names appear.
> 
> So we have less problems for serializing a Lisp extension versus
> more problems for Smalltalk, Delphi, C++, JAVA....
> 
> I do not think that will help RDF becoming widely used.
> 

I'm not marketing. The request was for an example. CLOS is one.
Perchance. The underlying reason is that it (perchance) adheres to the
principal of orthogonality at a place where RDF does also.

In general orthogonality is to be admired rathern than admonished.
Especially in a representation language which sets generality and
extensibility as one of its goals.

...


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