Andy Dingley pravi:
> As Java works, is popular, and the two favourite RDF tools are using
> it, then why move away ?   If you use Redland instead of Jena then
> you've access from C++ or Python. You're welcome to use anything else
> you fancy, it's just that the rest of us are already happily sat in one
> corner.

Because nowadays everybody is using some high level language, which is 
based on another high level language, which is based on another high 
level language, which is based on another high level language, which is 
based on another high level language, which is based on another high 
level language, which is based on another high level language, which is 
based on another high level language. And the code at the core is bloated.

Or that is the definition of anything running on a computer nowadays. 
I've been working in the area of artificial intelligence for 3 years and 
I have come to realize the only reason why many things "can't be done" 
is not because the computers aren't up to it, it's because all the code 
we have today are workarounds around workarounds around workarounds that 
don't really need to be there in the first place.

In short: You're missing the world of what can be done and limiting the 
capabilities of future implementations by getting at this problem the 
way you are.

>> Not to mention, it really doesn't answer my question. I don't use "XML
>> tools", document or otherwise, unless you count VI as one.
> 
> If you insist on only seeing the world as a linear text document
> through a fairly crude character-based editor, then you're never going
> to get very far managing triples. Things are harder now, user
> interfaces are fatter. If we're going to work with this world, then
> we're going to need fatter tools. Download a copy of Protege and have a
> play with some of the newer plugins for that.

It's not one bit about the editing tool, mind you. If you really knew 
what you were doing, you could do FOAF, RDF or XML with a pencil onto a 
piece of paper just fine. But then again you don't find people who 
really know their stuff enough to be capable of explaining it, yellin' 
"RTFM" around whenever asked for assistance.

Taking your abstraction levels in there you're just practicing narrow 
vision yourself.

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