• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>
• Subject: Re: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 11:58:00 -0400
• Cc: 'Michael Champion' <michaelc.champion@g...>, "'xml-dev@l...'" <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE07206827@h...>
• References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EE07206827@h...>
• User-agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 0.8 (Windows/20040913)

Bullard, Claude L (Len) wrote:

> But understand the audience and don't play Bach if they came 
> to boogie. Could XQuery have come out in successive versions 
> with simpler accompaniment? 

We now know that we could have done most of the type work later, 
releasing a dynamically typed language and adding the static typing in a 
subsequent release. The awful fact is, we couldn't know that for sure 
until after the static typing was done.

And I think we could have been done 1 to 2 years earlier if we had 
learned the lessons we now know about process on a complex spec with 
lots of players and lots of industry interest. The awful fact is, we had 
to flounder a while to figure some of this out.

Jonathan

• References:
  • RE: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
    • From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <len.bullard@i...>

• Prev by Date: Re: Which Will Be Released First, the W3C's XQuery Spec or Longhorn?
• Next by Date: RE: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
• Previous by thread: RE: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
• Next by thread: RE: Why *is* XQuery taking so long?
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread