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 >> > >
