In the following video, we're giving an explanation for the productivity argument: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLydlE-9EyA
Kind regards, William On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:43 AM, William Candillon <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello James, > > It's not our collective imagination. > XQuery is making us more productive programmers. > We even have serious evidence to back this up. > > When talking to people outside the xquery community, they buy > immediately the productivity argument. > But are they gonna learn a new programming language because it is > allegedly more productive? No way... > > It seems to me that for XQuery to go mainstream, we need to go in > areas where XQuery is not just more productive but simply > indispensable. > > What are we gonna do to get Dimitri to throw away his PHP and switch to > XQuery? > > We tried to answer this question in the following blog entry: > http://www.28msec.com/html/entry/2011/11/03/Not_your_Grandmas_XQuery > > Kind regards, > > William > > -- > 28msec - XQuery in the Cloud > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oY5ctVHEck > > > > > > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 9:15 AM, James Fuller > <[email protected]> wrote: >> I will be presenting a more technical version of my recent >> presentation (at Arhus GOTOCON) about XQuery. >> >> http://www.meetup.com/muglondon/events/40390792/ >> >> I used this talk to try and provide some basis to the various adhoc >> comments I have received over the years about XQuery productivity ... >> yes we know its very productive but I wanted to understand the reasons >> behind this. So I did an informal analysis and survey to try and >> understand if XQuery is actually productive or if its a matter of the >> imagination! >> >> I will also try and present a few xquery gems to illustrate the >> boundaries of the language. One example of this is the recent Corona >> effort https://github.com/marklogic/Corona which is an attempt to >> build a complete NoSQL drop in replacement, using XQuery set within >> MarkLogic. Its a pretty impressive example of how far you can push the >> language. >> >> In particular I am interested in discussing how we can further promote >> XQuery to a larger audience (and possibly all kinds of data); so would >> be great to get some momentum behind this. >> >> I don't know if XQuery will ever gain critical adoption, but I do know >> it took SQL 15 yrs to 'catch on' and it will take several years for >> the NoSQL crowd to get their query/update story standardized ... I do >> know that a language like SQL and XQuery is what we need and open to >> all ideas of how to go forward. >> >> Jim Fuller >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] >> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk >> > _______________________________________________ [email protected] http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk
