[xquery-talk] [ANN] Zorba "Leto" 3.1

[Michael Kay]

Various programming
> languages had an amateurish start (this surely did not apply to
> JSONiq), but still have become huge without anyone advertising them.
> 

There are four preconditions to make a technology successful

(a) it must meet a need

(b) it must be understandable

(c) it must be affordable

(d) luck

Elegance of design, in my experience, has very little to do with it; marketing has even less.

Michael Kay
Saxonica