Re: Ah, but who has better parties?

From: Leandro Guimaraens Faria Corsetti Dutra <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm>
Date: Wed, 26 May 2004 14:50:18 -0300
Message-ID: <pan.2004.05.26.17.50.18.873057@dutra.fastmail.fm>

Em Wed, 26 May 2004 09:28:50 -0700, Gene Wirchenko escreveu:

>>	You are totally offbase.  xBase as a language is not SQL, and
>>is even less relational than SQL.  Not only that, xBase *products*'s


> 

>      Are you being deliberately obtuse?  I have said that xBASE has

> SQL, not that it is SQL.

And I said it makes a world of difference to the worst.

>>SQL flavours and capabilities suffer from having to support
>>navigational access too.


> 

>      I find that having the two approaches is a strength.  xBASE

> record-oriented commands are very useful with a result set.

You are mixing data access with procedural processing.

But I guess you're just as hopeless as the others I plonked...

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