[xquery-talk] [xml-dev] Mistakes made in the design of XQuery 3.1

[daniela florescu]

Ihe,

I am not sure I understand what you mean…

XQuery was baptized XQuery around 2001, when no JSON was around (yet)….

True that JSON was created later in the same year 2001, however  it did not become widely popular 
about until much later. 

The json.org <http://json.org/>  WS was created in 2002.

We cold have called it TheQuery :-)

Dana


> On May 28, 2015, at 2:01 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
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> If XQuery had been called  JQuery people would have rushed to learn it before they realised what it was. By which time it would have been too late.
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 9:29 AM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com <mailto:ihe.onwuka at gmail.com>> wrote:
> No I meant not calling XQuery JQuery. I believe there was time for that....... just imagine......
> 
> On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 2:17 AM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com <mailto:dflorescu at me.com>> wrote:
>> 
>> Bigger mistake
>> 
>> Not calling it JQuery.\
> 
> Ihe,
> 
> the second mistake you mention, not calling it JQuery.
> 
> I wish we could…. but JQuery was used for something else, alas:(
> 
> We didn’t have that choice…..:(
> 
> But I love the name JSONiq. It’s nice, and it’s cool, and more original then JQuery.
> 
> If I remember correctly, it was Jonathan Robie’s idea !
> 
> Dana
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