Article:		A First Look at the Kowari Triplestore
Subject:		Confusing (non-)distinction
Date:		2004-07-01 09:37:11
From:		Uche Ogbuji
You write: "Most of the available open-sourced triplestores currently require either compilation, or the installation of a relational database like PostgreSQL for persistence, or are reliant on a host programming language like Perl or Python. In contrast, Kowari's installation is a snap (if your machine has Java 1.4 installed)-- download, unpack, and run." Er, if Perl and Python are "host languages", then Java is one as well. --Uche

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• Confusing (non-)distinction
  2004-07-02 00:03:32 Paul Ford [Reply]
  
  "Er, if Perl and Python are "host languages", then Java is one as well."

  
  Sure, agreed. I should have been more clear. My point is that Java's a very common language that an awful lot of people seem to have installed, and downloading jars and doubleclicking them is much easier than downloading a tar.gz file, unpacking it, checking dependencies, running the build script, and then invoking the script. Even perl -MCPAN -eshell isn't as easy. I don't like coding in Java, but I am partial to how easy it is to install compiled Java software. It just seems to be in a different league than other languages in terms of deployment, and that seemed worth noting.