Re: N. Wirth

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org>
Date: Tue, 02 May 2006 08:53:55 -0400
Message-ID: <87wtd4bna4.fsf_at_wolfe.cbbrowne.com>

Clinging to sanity, Jon Heggland <jon.heggland_at_idi.ntnu.no> mumbled into her beard:
> David Cressey wrote:
>> I'll repeat a comment I made a little while ago: Someone should do
>> for OOP what Pascal did for structured programming. Come up with a
>> suitable language for use as a teaching tool.
>>
>> Someone should do the same for the interface language to a
>> relational database.
>
> Something like Tutorial D, you mean?

No, I'd think it would be something more like:

• JDBC
• Perl DBI
• MSFT ADO
• CLSQL

Those are good examples of interfaces between programming languages and databases. They may not all be good, but they are interfaces...

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