  Representation and computation (was: universal languages)
From: Graham Klyne <GK@ninebynine.org> Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001
13:15:55 +0000 Message-Id: <> To: pat hayes <phayes@ai.uwf.edu>
Cc: www-rdf-logic@w3.org At 11:05 PM 2/5/01 -0600, pat hayes
wrote: >That depends on what you mean by 'model' (and
'structure'). They are  >sufficient to *implement* any finite
directed graph, indeed, in common  >with a host of alternative
datastructuring primitives (eg LISP  >s-expressions based on
dotted pairs). They are not so suitable for  >efficiently
representing numerically indexed structures such as arrays and
At this level, I don't think efficient representation is the
prime goal.  I  wouldn't use RDF to represent a matrix in an
spatial computation  program.  But it might be a convenient way
to exchange the resulting   >and they are only suitable for
representing linguistic structures such as  >structured code or
logical expressions if supplemented with some  >conventions for
binding label names and indicating scop