Re: Unknown SQL

From: <korek_at_icm.edu.pl>
Date: Sat, 21 Jul 2001 23:29:10 GMT
Message-ID: <slrn9hhdt1.7qu.korek_at_lilia.lab.icm.edu.pl>

In article <8ATR6.764$qO.187758698_at_radon.golden.net>, Bob Badour wrote: >>> So, you claim it is easier to force the user to know about Arrays, Sets, >>> Bags, Collections, Iterators, Children, Parents etc. than it is to force  the

>>> user to know about Relations, Tuples and Domains?
>>
>>All of the above constructs are part of the Java programming language.

>
> So, your concept of a DBMS limits the user community to a very select group
> of highly trained programmers?

The advantage of Java is, that Java programmers need not to be "highly trained". It's not APL, it's even much easier than C(no memory management :-).

>>We
>>neither force the user to know about them, nor to use them.

>
> So, as long as your force all of your users to first learn Java, you are off
> the hook?

Not users, programmers. I agree that language-specificity, can be disadvantageous in some cases... but advantageous in others.

    Greetings :-)

        Michal Gajda
        korek_at_icm.edu.pl
        *knowledge-hungry student*

Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:29:10 CEST