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"prior art"

Are you suggesting GraphQL is novel and non-obvious? The term "prior art" of course comes from the patent law.

Are you suggesting that the term "prior art" does not imply any relation (as in "relate to")? If so, that's false.



I made no such suggestions. I was suggesting that it’s certainly plausible that QBE influenced aspects of GraphQL. The “prior art” being QBE, not GraphQL.


Were you suggesting that GraphQL is a homoiconic language?

In QBE the request resembles the response.


Yes they are both homoiconic. I said that was one of the key selling points of GraphQL. I don’t understand the conflict.


Who said there was a conflict? The two are related. That was the original point.




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