Re: SPARQL, philosophy n'stuff..

Hi,

On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 12:54 PM, Kingsley Idehen
<kidehen@openlinksw.com> wrote:
> On 4/18/13 7:44 AM, Leigh Dodds wrote:
>>
>> But I bet you learnt it in stages using a pedagogical approach that
>> guided you towards the basic building blocks first. And I expect there
>> were other reasons -- network effects -- why learning English was
>> worth up-front effort. We're not there with SPARQL.
>
> Do you have an example of any declarative query language that meets the goal
> in question, assuming I am interpreting your comments accurately?

I think you misunderstood me. I don't think any declarative query
language (or technology) can meet the wider goal, because many of the
issues are non-technical.

My specific point in that comment was that SPARQL is still not widely
deployed or in-use enough that someone might just sit down and learn
it simply because its a core skill or technology. That's changing but
its still very far from, e.g. SQL, in that regard.

Cheers,

L.

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Received on Thursday, 18 April 2013 12:06:56 UTC