Re: N. Wirth
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 18:26:02 GMT
Message-ID: <_uN5g.2059$A26.59263_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
>
> No, I'd think it would be something more like:
> - JDBC
> - Perl DBI
> - MSFT ADO
> - CLSQL
>
> Those are good examples of interfaces between programming languages
> and databases. They may not all be good, but they are interfaces...
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 18:26:02 GMT
Message-ID: <_uN5g.2059$A26.59263_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
Christopher Browne wrote:
> Clinging to sanity, Jon Heggland <jon.heggland_at_idi.ntnu.no> mumbled into her beard:
>
>>David Cressey wrote: >> >>>I'll repeat a comment I made a little while ago: Someone should do >>>for OOP what Pascal did for structured programming. Come up with a >>>suitable language for use as a teaching tool. >>> >>>Someone should do the same for the interface language to a >>>relational database. >> >>Something like Tutorial D, you mean?
>
> No, I'd think it would be something more like:
> - JDBC
> - Perl DBI
> - MSFT ADO
> - CLSQL
>
> Those are good examples of interfaces between programming languages
> and databases. They may not all be good, but they are interfaces...
He didn't mention interfaces per se. He mentioned interface languages. None of the above define an interface language. All of the above leave that to the dbms using SQL. Received on Tue May 02 2006 - 20:26:02 CEST