Jan Hidders wrote:
> JOG wrote:
>
>>Jan Hidders wrote:
>>[snip]
>>
>>>Moreover, integrating lists and bags into a
>>>declarative set-oriented language is basically a solved problem as the
>>>required ideas, knowledge and experience is already available in the
>>>literature, although it is sometimes dressed up as "nested relational",
>>>"object-oriented" or "xml" research.
>>
>>That appears to be some very extreme dressing up (but that's research
>>for you). Can you recommend any seminal references for this solved
>>issue Jan?
>
>
> Hard to say, because it's a bit scattered and not always recognizable
> to the untrained eye. But if I'd have to point to one paper it would
> probably be Principles of Programming with Complex Objects and
> Collection Types (1995) by Buneman, Naqvi, Tannen and Wong:
>
> http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/90087.html
Wow! Thank you for this excellent reference, Jan, thank you :-)
Received on Wed Mar 22 2006 - 17:20:41 CST
