Article:		The True Meaning of Service
Subject:		Crack?
Date:		2002-07-20 02:04:01
From:		Ian Young
Kendall writes that "it's interesting to think about CPAN or an Apache module repository smoking DAML-S crack". This appears to be a reference to the drug 'crack' cocaine. Having no personal experience of the drug, I am at something of a loss to make the connection with DAML-S. Can someone help?

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• Crack?
  2002-07-21 20:15:33 Kendall Clark [Reply]
  
  Hmm, okay, so it's not the most felicitious metaphor, and probably inappropriate. All I meant to say was that one might think about CPAN (or the Python stdlib or a Squeak image or...) as a collection of things ("modules") which provide services, and about which it would be terribly useful to have semantic descriptions.

  
  In other words, if CPAN modules had DAML-S descriptions, that might lead to strange, unexpected, and good things.

  
  Hope that clear it up a bit.

  
  Kendall