<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Jun 23, 2015, at 4:07 PM, Pavel Minaev <<a href="mailto:int19h@gmail.com" class="">int19h@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class="">I think that was distinguishes LINQ is not that it was the first such experiment, but that it was the first one that happened in a mainstream non-declarative language (as opposed to a fork of one) <i class="">and </i>was widely adopted by the community of that language.</div></div></blockquote><br class=""></div><div>Pavel,</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div>Yep. You are right. For that give credit to Bill Gates, who allowed this “new” and potentially disruptive thing to happen</div><div>in a large scale industrial product.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>This was not a “first” as research, but was definitely a “first” as business.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Bill Gates was not only a brilliant businessman, but ALSO loved and understood technology.</div><div>(too bad he had no aesthetic and usability sense though :-))</div><div><br class=""></div><div>======</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Note to the CEO of MarkLogic…. can I tell you something, dear CEO !? THAT’s the difference between you (on one side)</div><div>and Larry Ellison and Bill Gates and Steve Jobs (on the other..).</div><div><br class=""></div><div>The courage to try something completely new and untested, and STICK to what you believe in.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Not jump from XQuery on server side to Javascript on server side because the wind blows sideways … or someone influenced you</div><div>in the corridor …….like you did.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>Best regards</div><div>Dana</div><div><br class=""></div><div>P.S. And if you ask me why the business mistakes of MarkLogic are MY business….it’s very simple.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>If MarkLogic screws up financially… it will drag down THE WHOLE XQUERY TECHNOLOGY.</div><div><br class=""></div><div>And I spent 20 years working on it…….so I take it personally.</div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div><div><br class=""></div></body></html>