Re: Unknown SQL

>>Why on earth would anyone want to program a text editor with a DBMS? It is
>>an inappropriate use of the tool. Can you program a text editor solely
 with
>>your product? Or does one need to use a programming language, such as
 Java,
>>as well?
>
>I would. Indeed, given an complex UI appication, why can't I ask to find
 all the
>combobox widgets with a country list easily? We shipped this monster
 application
>last month and customer wants to update country lists everywhere changing
 the
>"All" option to blank entry.

Hi Mikito,

I am not sure I understand what you are saying. Are you saying you would like a text editor with the power of SQL for making the changes you need to make to your program? It seems to me that "grep" and "sed" have that kind of power.

>No matter now badly my application is written, the request is so simple so
 that
>it could be easily formulated in SQL. Some people like Peter Douglass from
>comp.object already expressed an idea of having general purpose relational
>engine within programming environment. Until then, however, the best I can
 do is
>to navigate ala STL in 3GL language.

Or are you saying you would like a programming language with the functional and declarative expressibility of a relational database language? I would too.

I would also like one of those that is well integrated with my DBMS, but I still would not confuse the programming language with the DBMS. I would still let the DBMS manage my data and would write my applications in the programming language.

Regards,
Bob Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:28:50 CEST