Re: UC&R feedback from PL designer community (programming language vs limited expressivity)

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 10:27:18AM -0500, Dan Connolly wrote:

> "When people design query languages, they often seem to forget they are
> still designing a programming language."
> 
> I didn't forget, but I don't think we are designing a programming
> language. At least... I hope not, as I said earlier...

Yes, I agree. We're *not* designing a programming language. This is
one of my "minor" reasons for disliking an XQuery-centric strawman.

I'm happy chalking this one up to the bias (which is how some people
pronounce "virture") of this particular community.

Kendall

Received on Thursday, 26 August 2004 16:07:50 UTC