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(via Slashdot).

Pike is a Swedish programming language, described on the website as "the first scripting language for the Semantic Web". It includes built-in support for RDF and OWL; it's not clear at first glance how this differs from library support for RDF and OWL in any of the languages (Javascript, Java, C#, Python...) Pike resembles, as there appear to be no special constructs involved.

As far as I can tell, it means some bundled libraries for doing things with RDF and OWL. The website gives this example:

This sample program reads an OWL file, parses the dataset contained in it, and then lists the data classes in that dataset:

    int main(int argc, array argv)
    {
      object owlset = Web.OWL();
      string input = Stdio.read_file(argv[1]);
      owlset->parse_owl(input);


      write("Classes:\n");


      foreach(owlset->find_statements(0,
                                      owlset->rdf_type,
                                      owlset->owl_Class);
                             array statement)
        write("- %O\n", statement[0]);


      return 0;
    }

Nothing very exotic there, I'd say.