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Re: Extending my question. Was: The relational model and relational algebra - why did SQL become the industry standard?

From: Lauri Pietarinen <lauri.pietarinen_at_atbusiness.com>
Date: Mon, 10 Mar 2003 12:23:39 +0200
Message-ID: <3E6C67AB.5020902@atbusiness.com> 







Jan Hidders wrote:



>>>What makes you think that while-loops raise the level of abstraction?

>>>      

>>>

>>What makes you think they don't?

>>    

>>

>

>They are both imperative programming constructs.

>



That would impy that a Turing-machine program and a Java-program are on the
same level of abstraction.  They are both imperative programming constructs,
are they not?



regards,


Lauri Pietarinen
Received on Mon Mar 10 2003 - 04:23:39 CST












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