Re: What databases have taught me
From: Keith H Duggar <duggar_at_alum.mit.edu>
Date: 23 Jun 2006 18:35:02 -0700
Message-ID: <1151112902.393590.155950_at_p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>
Date: 23 Jun 2006 18:35:02 -0700
Message-ID: <1151112902.393590.155950_at_p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>
Bob Badour wrote:
> Keith H Duggar wrote:
> > Interesting. Since you still use Java have you taken a
> > look at Rel?
> >
> > http://dbappbuilder.sourceforge.net/Rel.html
> >
> > What are you thoughts on it?
>
> I know you asked Marshall and not me. I didn't understand
> some of the changes to the language like, for instance,
> the requirement for BEGIN/END for the WITH statement. A
> lot of the other additions seemed like syntactic candy
> that don't add functionality -- just complexity and
> language redundancy.
Does it even make sense to talk about a relational language compiler that does not link to a full-blown DBMS?
- Keith -- Fraud 6