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That's true, but it would be a while until this form of transport would be expansive enough to displace any significant amount of air travel. Don't get me wrong though.. im all for this development!


A great lecturer can inspire and spark a thirst for knowledge inside students.. In my opinion there is no way lectures will be completely replaced or lost. However, learning by doing is probably more efficient in this information soaked age so I wouldn't be surprised if more integrated labs / discussions courses started showing up.


The OPs name on the linked site should have given this away


Native JSON is a nice step, but for the most part I would have to agree with the other commenters. Especially embedding SQL as a literal as seems more convoluted than clarifying.


I think it might be elegant in small doses - just look at C#'s LINQ. Also, it's a nice strategy to lure newbies away from string concatenation and give security for free...


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