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Re: Does Codd's view of a relational database differ from that ofDate&Darwin?[M.Gittens]

From: Alfredo Novoa <alfredo_novoa_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2005 13:05:40 +0200
Message-ID: <or5lb190u2hm70cuma1ibml9u84eg5u9cc@4ax.com> 





On Wed, 22 Jun 2005 19:12:20 GMT, Jan Hidders
<jan.hidders_at_REMOVETHIS.pandora.be> wrote:



>>>The words "procedural" and "imperative" are in this context largely 

>>>synonymous.

>>  

>> They are largely confused, but not synonymous.

>> 

>> http://foldoc.doc.ic.ac.uk/foldoc/foldoc.cgi?imperative+language

>

>The context in which the term was used was query languages, not update 

>languages.




There are not query languages. Daplex and SQL are data languages.



On the other hand a Daplex query reads the current state of variables
and that is imperative programming.




Regards
Received on Thu Jun 23 2005 - 06:05:40 CDT












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