[xquery-talk] [ANN] presenting XQuery - GSD language at MarkLogic User Group London Nov 24
Andrew Welch
andrew.j.welch at gmail.com
Wed Nov 9 02:13:36 PST 2011
Hi all,
> But are they gonna learn a new programming language because it is
> allegedly more productive? No way...
Is there a killer app yet?
> It seems to me that for XQuery to go mainstream, we need to go in
> areas where XQuery is not just more productive but simply
> indispensable.
Playing devils advocate:
- XQuery is only productive because of proprietary extensions for a
given product
- XQuery on its own isn't a single-tier, do-everything language
- Each vendor has effectively created a dsl.
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Andrew Welch
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