[xquery-talk] not sure if I should laugh with big tears or cry with big tears...:-)))))

[Ihe Onwuka]

All that effort into designing a language that has no published
specification, will almost certainly never be a published standard and
therefore no financial institution will be prepared to pay a N1QL for.

Stupid is as Stupid Does.

On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 2:15 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com> wrote:

> I guess I should cry with big tears…and not laugh at all.
>
> Even smart people like Kurt Cagle would like to see this “inexact science
> language”  (because there are two kinds of
>  sciences, one exact, and one inexact…..)   standardized as ISO ….
>
> https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/n1ql-couchbase-brings-sql-json-kurt-cagle
>
> The world is weird.
>
> Dana
>
>
> On Jun 2, 2015, at 8:38 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com> wrote:
>
> I copy and paste here from Linkedin my conversation with one of the top
> scientists of on of the top NoSQL databases: Couchbase….
>
> "Please consider real world deployments, not academic endeavors....This
> is still an inexact science” :-))))))))
>
>
> ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>
> Dana,
>
> Please consider real world deployments, not academic endeavors....This is
> still an inexact science.
>
> On 6/2/15, 10:38 AM, Daniela Florescu wrote:
> --------------------
> Dear,
>
> you have a query language implemented, and you have no specification
> written for it !???
>
> That's weird to say the least.
>
> I never heard of a programming language (because a query language is a
> programming language...), whose specification is only in Powerpoint.
>
> Sorry, I don't have time.
>
> If you have a specification written, please send it to me, and I'll give
> you an honest feedback.
>
> Best
> Dana
>
> On 6/2/15, 10:33 AM, XXXXl wrote:
> --------------------
> Daniela,
>
> Couchbase Connect 15 going on this week at Levis Stadium in Santa Clara.
> You should check it out. We are talking up our query language N!QL.
>
>
> http://www.cvent.com/events/couchbase-connect-15/event-summary-b7744ca960364b75aba41de42cbef19e.aspx
> <https://www.linkedin.com/redir/redirect?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Ecvent%2Ecom%2Fevents%2Fcouchbase-connect-15%2Fevent-summary-b7744ca960364b75aba41de42cbef19e%2Easpx&urlhash=3ZMl>
>
>    -
>
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