Thanks, Ihe. That led me to https://www.progress.com/xquery/resources/tutorials/learning-xquery/xquery---a-guided-tour (a site I'd never seen before), which cites _ XQuery from the Experts: A Guide to the W3C XML Query Language_ (2004) as having said:
XQuery uses "smiley faces" to begin and end comments. This cheerful > notation was originally suggested by Jeni Tennison. On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:17 AM, Ihe Onwuka <[email protected]> wrote: > I heard it was Jeni Tennison's idea. > > On Sat, Jun 13, 2015 at 9:12 AM, Joe Wicentowski <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> On a lighter note, the @xquery twitter account got this question: >> >> @xquery Were the smiley faces intentional? :) >> https://twitter.com/EChan42/status/609465297523838976 >> >> Can anyone enlighten EChan42 and the seemingly endless stream, in many >> different languages, of tweets about this lovable aspect of XQuery? >> >> Joe >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> _______________________________________________ >> [email protected] >> http://x-query.com/mailman/listinfo/talk >> > >
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