Re: New RDBMS implementation

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 22:52:46 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.07.01.52.45.970035@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Em Thu, 06 May 2004 23:41:19 +0100, Anthony W. Youngman escreveu:

>> I do think functions would do just OK. That said, there is no
>>such thing as a pure functional language... all of them have side
>>effects, and there lies their usefulness.
>
> Forth?

Forth isn't functional, is it? I seem to remember it is more of stack-based... did it ever get database access? I can only think of two uses for it: OpenFirmware and Postscript. Perhaps there are some other embedded uses...

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