Comments on: Calculation and Compilation in Arcmap http://gis.blogoverflow.com/2011/11/calculation-and-compilation-in-arcmap/ The GIS Stack Exchange Blog Tue, 17 Dec 2013 19:35:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.5.6 By: mattwilkie http://gis.blogoverflow.com/2011/11/calculation-and-compilation-in-arcmap/#comment-49 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 17:55:49 +0000 http://gis.blogoverflow.com/?p=263#comment-49 +10 for this alone: “what [should] GIS-specific languages should look like? Notice how the language choice is hidden by the compiler – it is an implementation detail.” Definitely a quest worth undertaking, and I thank you for bringing it forward.

I hesitate to wait for Esri to pilot the GQL – Geographic Query Language (somebody please come up with a better name!); they’re not speedy. On the other hand one developed without them will take a long time, if ever, to be available in that ecosystem (c.f. GPX), so they should be involved. I’m not a developer so the only thing I can do to support this effort is cheer from the sidelines. I’m very happy to do that though: GO KIRK! GO TEAM! 🙂

More generally, the word “CodeDOM” is referred to in the article but not defined or linked to. From context I have a general idea what that means, but a more refined definition would be helpful.

]]> By: blah238 http://gis.blogoverflow.com/2011/11/calculation-and-compilation-in-arcmap/#comment-43 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 06:03:41 +0000 http://gis.blogoverflow.com/?p=263#comment-43 agreed, very cool stuff Kirk!

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