What happened to WinFS?
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Wasn't there a Calvin and Hobbes once where Calvin talked about taking a word and "verbing" it?
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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http://aoife.allegracom.ca/images/verbing_sm.jpg[^]
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Yep, that's the one!
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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Quentin sounds like a major Architecture astronaut[^]. "it has to be done very carefully and architected right." "architected" is not a fucking word. God I hate it when people write like that.
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Is this ever going to see the light of day?
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PIEBALDconsult wrote:
Maybe because of this[^]? Big Grin
ummm why? *nix has a zillion file systems, what's special about that one to make it relevant to the discussion?
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Wasn't there a Calvin and Hobbes once where Calvin talked about taking a word and "verbing" it?
Christopher Duncan Author of The Career Programmer and Unite the Tribes www.PracticalUSA.com
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Is this ever going to see the light of day?
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No, because then it will turn to dust. (I knew WinFS was in trouble when the only examples anyone ever came up with for how "cool" it was were about organizing your music files.)
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Is this ever going to see the light of day?
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I had actually managed to forget about WinFS and now you've made me all sad and frustrated again. The one feature in Blackcomb I was truly looking forward to. :sigh:
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
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I had actually managed to forget about WinFS and now you've made me all sad and frustrated again. The one feature in Blackcomb I was truly looking forward to. :sigh:
cheers, Chris Maunder The Code Project Co-founder Microsoft C++ MVP
Me too. I've been waiting for something like this for a while.
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Quentin sounds like a major Architecture astronaut[^]. "it has to be done very carefully and architected right." "architected" is not a fucking word. God I hate it when people write like that.
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the fact that the blog's gone almost 3 years without a post isn't a promising sign for it being an anything. :rolleyes:
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Quentin sounds like a major Architecture astronaut[^]. "it has to be done very carefully and architected right." "architected" is not a fucking word. God I hate it when people write like that.
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Is this ever going to see the light of day?
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IIRC it has been shelved for now. Lessons learned from it are present in SQL Server 2008. Hopefully they do get their 'A's into 'G' and roll it out.
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Is this ever going to see the light of day?
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Wow, reading the wikipedia article, WinFS sounds like something too good to be true. Probably that's why they still haven't made it.
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It's "architectured"! Usually when you correct someone you also point out the right form. :D
Wouldn't it be engineered?
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Wouldn't it be engineered?
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Wouldn't it be engineered?
Or maybe "fungineered"?
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Quentin sounds like a major Architecture astronaut[^]. "it has to be done very carefully and architected right." "architected" is not a fucking word. God I hate it when people write like that.
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Why shouldn't "architected" be a word? http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/architect[^] http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/architect[^] It also appears in the Word dictionary (which that blog post was probably originally checked against). Admittedly, Merriam-Webster does not list it as a verb, but it is perfectly acceptable to "verbify" a noun (get it? I "verbified" "verb") if there is a need for a word with a particular connotation. I would argue that "architect" is such a case. It can be compared to adding the "ish" modifier to change a noun to an adjective or using "ly" to change an adjective to an adverb. Almost all words are created this way. While us English-speakers tend to consider language in terms of "words", it is much more accurate to define things in terms of roots, suffixes, prefixes, and other modifiers. This thinking is much more prevalent in the romance languages, I think.
