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Re: The Practical Benefits of the Relational Model

From: David Cressey <david_at_dcressey.com>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 15:10:35 GMT
Message-ID: <Lvmh9.79$0I3.4697@petpeeve.ziplink.net> 





>     I dunno. SQL feels about right to me. For simple, common tasks there

is a


>   fairly straightforward way of handling it. And for the more complex

problems


>   we can still avail ourselves of the relational equivalents of Duff's

Device.



SQL feels about right to me, too.  But I think of it as an interface
language, rather than as a programming language.



Why do people want the interface language to be a complete programming
language?  What does that buy you?
Received on Mon Sep 16 2002 - 10:10:35 CDT












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