Re: N. Wirth

From: David Fetter <david_at_fetter.org>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 00:05:32 -0500
Message-ID: <zr-dnYoU3uSBp8XZnZ2dnUVZ_vGdnZ2d@speakeasy.net>

Jon Heggland <jon.heggland_at_idi.ntnu.no> wrote:

> 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?

I sure hope not. Tutorial D is meant to implement the Date's Relational Model, which is equivalent to first-order logic, which in turn is provably less powerful than SQL. Why would anybody want to bother with a language that's both cumbersome and weaker than what people will be working with?

Cheers,
D

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(He could have been talking about Date's RM, tho ;)

Received on Wed May 03 2006 - 00:05:32 CDT