I am so with the Idea of RDF but it's never going to happen, certainly not the way people who wax poetic about it seem to imagine. RDF strikes me as the datetime problem writ large, an increasingly pendantic debate to define what the meaning ofEfforts in the past to herd all the existing module authors towards a common API have failed, so rather than try that again, I decided to just write even more datetime code. As we all know, the best way to put out a fire is to pour copious amounts of gasoline on it. In order to make my project sound cool, I'm calling it the "Perl DateTime Suite", which sounds much better than "more date and time modules".
is is. By way of example, a careful reader will note that
during the discussion of Daylight Savings Time in article cited no mention is made of the fact that Saskatchewan doesn't
bother with the practice at all; most farmers are bit too busy for that kind of thing and who can blame them? So fine, go
ahead and add another ruleset your RDF thingy but sooner or later all RDF thingies are just going to be little more than a collection of monster
if/else statements (because the farmers aren't going adopt DST just to make your whiz-bang network enable font of knowledge
happy. In every essay I've seen about RDF, the author say something to the effect of why is something so simple, so hard for people to understand?The answer is pretty straightforward : because, for good or ill, people are hell-bent on making it difficult. Why, if RDF is so simple, does it have all this baggage? What the hell is a
Class and why
do I need to care? Why, if all this nonsense, is meant for machines do people push as something that humans should feel all
warm and fuzzt about? RDF is a perfectly good framework for exchanging data and describing things. Period. But please stop
thinking that it is a suitable vehicle for condensing all of human experience and automating human interaction. see also :
strikes me as more event-like than freebusy-like and
banque de déppanage linguistique which, with a
name like that, ought to tell you something.