Re: What databases have taught me
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:51:30 GMT
Message-ID: <m00ng.1333$pu3.35763_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
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> Interesting. Since you still use Java have you taken a look
> at Rel?
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> http://dbappbuilder.sourceforge.net/Rel.html
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> What are you thoughts on it?
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 00:51:30 GMT
Message-ID: <m00ng.1333$pu3.35763_at_ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>
> Marshall wrote:
>
>>What I *dream* of, though, is a language that will have >>built-in, both the functional facilities of a languages >>like SML and the relational algebra, together. Since no >>one seems to be working on this, I'm toying with it >>myself.
>
> 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. Received on Sat Jun 24 2006 - 02:51:30 CEST