Re: Storing data and code in a Db with LISP-like interface

From: JOG <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk>
Date: 8 May 2006 06:43:38 -0700
Message-ID: <1147095818.448155.205520@g10g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

Marshall Spight wrote:
> While I appreciate VC and others' erudite refutations (really!) for
> me the issue is much simpler.
>
> Does programming language X have natural join? Does it allow
> me to use the relational algebra in a way that is at least as
> easy at it is in SQL?
>
> If not, please don't bother claiming a basis in set theory.
> No, having a turing-complete language that you can put
> a relational library in doesn't get you any points either;
> what's in some library isn't the basis for the language, and
> it won't meet the requirement of the previous paragraph
> either.
>
> Subtyping polymorphism, while certainly convenient, no
> longer holds any theoretical interest for me.
>
>
> Marshall

Do I remember reading that you were designing something of this nature Marshall? Received on Mon May 08 2006 - 08:43:38 CDT