Hi All,

I joined this mailing list few weeks back. I am not sure about the new
query language work, but I would like to suggest one more name option -
*Cantor* - In the spirit of Georg Cantor (
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Georg_Cantor) who put forward the idea of
infinite.

Thanks,
Alan





On Thu, Nov 3, 2016 at 6:49 AM, Adrian Nistor <anis...@redhat.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> So far we have: IQL, Ickle, QuIL, YAQL, LQID, INAQL, INQL, WTF, NSFW,
> KMFDM.
>
> I do not like acronyms that are not straight forward. They should really
> be the initials of the simplest description of what the thing is. In this
> case the acceptable one would be : Infinispan Query Language => IQL.
> Unfortunately this seems to mean different things to different people. So
> let's forget about acronyms and go with ... *Ickle* [1][2][3], proposed
> by Tristan.
>
> A very respectable bearded fellow once said: "There are only two hard
> things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." So let's
> use this as an excuse and dare to (maybe) settle on a less than perfect
> name :). At least it is a damn cute one.
>
> Thanks Tristan for the name!
> Cheers!
>
>
> [1] http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ickle
> [2] http://www.dictionary.com/browse/ickle
> [3] http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ickle
>
>
>
> On 10/28/2016 06:49 PM, Emmanuel Bernard wrote:
>
> I like Ickle and LQID personally. And Adrian is way too reasonable on a
> name thread ;)
>
> On Mon 16-10-17  9:07, Tristan Tarrant wrote:
>
> Hi all,
>
> something trivial and fun for a Monday morning.
>
> I've just issued a PR [1] to update the codename for Infinispan 9.0.
>
> And while we're at it, let's give a name to the new query language that
> Adrian (and Emmanuel) have designed. We already have a number of
> suggestions (which I summarize below) but please feel free to add your
> own. Please vote.
>
> IQL (Infinispan Query Language, already used by others).
> Ickle (Alternate pronunciation of above, also means "small")
> LQID (Language for Querying Infinispan Datagrids)
> QuIL ("Query Infinispan" Language)
>
> Tristan
>
> [1] https://github.com/infinispan/infinispan/pull/4617
> --
> Tristan Tarrant
> Infinispan Lead
> JBoss, a division of Red Hat
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