Thankyou Alan.

Rgds
Srilatha

On Mon, Oct 20, 2008 at 9:22 PM, Alan Gates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> The story I've heard is that it was originally selected because pig's eat
> anything, and the designers wanted to stress that pig would work over any
> type of data (with or without metadata, nested or flat, structured or
> unstructured, etc.).
>
> It is not an acronym, and thus should not be PIG but Pig.  It has also
> turned out to be very convenient, as it is easy to find names for parts of
> the project:  Pig Latin for the script, grunt for the shell, PigPen for the
> development environment, Piggybank for the UDF repository, ...
>
> Alan.
>
>
> On Oct 20, 2008, at 8:25 AM, Latha wrote:
>
>  Greetings!
>> Could anyone please let me know how you came up with interesting name
>> 'PIG'
>> for the language.
>> Would like to know its origin as I am going to attend a viva for my
>> project
>> where I used Hadoop & Pig as backend.
>>
>> Thanks & Regards,
>> Srilatha
>>
>
>

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