+1 I love Cypher's ASCII art, and Josh's idea of drawing Cypher inside a whiteboarded graph is wonderful.
I really don't want Cypher to pander to SQL. Cypher is about graph matching and should be awesome at it - its duty to us newbies is simply to be humane not identical to what I (think I) already know. Jim On 5 Nov 2011, at 03:48, jadell wrote: > > Mattias Persson-2 wrote: >> >> 2011/11/4 maxdemarzi <maxdemarzi@> >> I'd say the strongest part of Cypher is the "ascii art" pattern where you >> clearly see what you're querying for, right there and then without having >> to parse it into a graph into your head. Removing that would reduce my >> interest in this language significantly. >> > > This! A thousand times this! Whenever I'm trying to explain how you find > connected information without joins, people's eyes tend to glaze over until > I a) draw the graph on the whiteboard, b) write out the Cypher query > *directly inside the graph*. That's the "no f-ing way!" moment for most > people to see the power of graphs and graph query languages. > > -- Josh Adell > > -- > View this message in context: > http://neo4j-community-discussions.438527.n3.nabble.com/Neo4j-Cypher-Pickle-tp3480817p3481871.html > Sent from the Neo4j Community Discussions mailing list archive at Nabble.com. > _______________________________________________ > Neo4j mailing list > User@lists.neo4j.org > https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user _______________________________________________ Neo4j mailing list User@lists.neo4j.org https://lists.neo4j.org/mailman/listinfo/user
