- From: Enrico Franconi <franconi@inf.unibz.it>
- Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2004 17:09:22 +0200
- To: RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On 15 Jul 2004, at 16:54, Dan Connolly wrote: > While thinking about xquery-based designs, I realized I have been > assuming the following requirement. What do other folks think? > > 3.X Limited complexity > > Less expressive languages are easier to implement, deploy, secure, and > optimize (cf the Principle of Least Poser in an essay on design > principles for the Web[1]). Since a large and interesting class of > applications can be addressed with query languages that are less > expressive than programming languages, this design should not involve > a turning-complete query evaluator. The halting problem must not be > expressible in this query language design. I agree. --e. Enrico Franconi - franconi@inf.unibz.it Free University of Bozen-Bolzano - http://www.inf.unibz.it/~franconi/ Faculty of Computer Science - Phone: (+39) 0471-016-120 I-39100 Bozen-Bolzano BZ, Italy - Fax: (+39) 0471-016-129
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