Re: foundations of relational theory?

"mikepreece" <member31023_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message news:3530047.1067322155_at_dbforums.com...
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> <rant>PickBasic is brilliant for working inside a Pick DBMS. The two are
> ideally matched - there's definitely a synergy. In a Pick DBMS
> environment it's definitely *not* equivalent to BASIC. That Pick should
> have lost contracts because of it can only have been due to people
> reacting to the perception of the thing rather than the thing itself.
> Who's to blame for that? I dunno. Back when PickBasic was first invented
> it might not have been seen as such a bad name. Can't blame people now
> though for jumping to the seemingly obvious conclusion that it's similar
> in power to ordinary BASIC. You would, I think, be surprised at what we
> can do with PickBasic - especially when it has the role of interacting
> with the DBMS allied to functions on a web server or the host OS.</rant>

I won't disagree that they are well-matched, and that there are advantages to having a homogeneous development environment. But I'm *extremely* skeptical of the idea that any variant of BASIC could compete on language features with a modern language. I could be convinced otherwise, though.

Marshall Received on Tue Oct 28 2003 - 17:15:09 CET