- From: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>
- Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 09:09:50 -0400
- To: Dirk-Willem van Gulik <dirkx@webweaving.org>
- Cc: Kendall Clark <kendall@monkeyfist.com>, "Seaborne, Andy" <andy.seaborne@hp.com>, Alberto Reggiori <alberto@asemantics.com>, RDF Data Access Working Group <public-rdf-dawg@w3.org>
On Tue, Aug 31, 2004 at 05:50:13AM -0700, Dirk-Willem van Gulik wrote: > Simply avoiding it confuses the developers less; makes the learning curve > easier and costs us nothing at this stage. First, it might confuse *some* developer less. Other developers won't care because they aren't implementing or integrating with SQL. Second, I don't know how, say, "^foo" or "+foo" is an easier learning curve than "?foo". A variable is something unknown and "?" strongly implies that for many people, I suspect. Third, it might not cost us, WG members, anything but it imposes a cost on others. How is it not a cost to change what seems to be one of the few actual syntactic conventions in this entire space? I think that's a cost and a pretty big one. Not every triple store or query processor is backed by SQL, and few SW applications I've been around have to integrate this deeply with SQL -- this feels to me, with all due respect, like the tail wagging the dog. Best, Kendall Clark
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