Re: Date is Incomplete - database application software and database theory

From: Leandro Guimarães Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Thu, 13 May 2004 16:49:40 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.13.19.49.40.188732@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Em Wed, 12 May 2004 22:16:01 -0700, --CELKO-- escreveu:

>>> Why have another language?  Doesn't that suggest use of the first

> language is not implemented properly? <<
>
> Nah! It means we like to write languages! :) And, as Dave McGovern said
> "A committee never met a feature it didn't like."

No, it really means SQL is lousy.

>>> 1.   We have database software. <<

>
> Which means SQL these days; a declarative, set oriented language.

SQL is not set-oriented, it is bag-oriented. You of all persons shouldn't help this misconception survive.

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