Re: N. Wirth

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 11:01:48 GMT
Message-ID: <w406g.2556$A26.68483@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

David Fetter wrote:

> 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?

Another self-aggrandizing ignorant?!? Don't we have enough of those around here already? Plonk. Received on Wed May 03 2006 - 06:01:48 CDT