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

daniela florescu dflorescu at me.com
Thu May 28 22:26:05 PDT 2015


Ihe,

my response to your email did not make it though the list.... so your answer to my answer ..... is not understandable to anyone.

Dana


> On May 28, 2015, at 10:03 PM, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, May 28, 2015 at 5:43 PM, daniela florescu <dflorescu at me.com <mailto:dflorescu at me.com>> wrote:
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> But I see my role as an engineer to build good engineering solutions, not to increase the IQ of the general population. That’s not my job.
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> But you are not producing solutions for other engineers.
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> If you tell a developer with zero engineering qualifications their design is structurally flawed or that they are using the wrong tools they (or their boss) will turn around and tell you  that there are several ways of doing things and theirs is equally valid...... and that's if they are being polite.  
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> Then a couple of epochs and a failed project later they will get feted for writing a blog about how you shouldn't use what they used or shouldn't do what they did. Most probably said blog will focus on the effects of what they did because they probably still don't understand the cause.
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