Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL

From: Hannu Krosing <hannu(at)tm(dot)ee>
To: Mike Mascari <mascarm(at)mascari(dot)com>
Cc: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne(at)acm(dot)org>, "pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-hackers(at)postgresql(dot)org>
Subject: Re: Dreaming About Redesigning SQL
Date: 2003-10-04 08:09:49
Message-ID: 1065254989.2746.4.camel@fuji.krosing.net
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Mike Mascari kirjutas L, 04.10.2003 kell 06:32:

>
> 2) The query language should be computationally complete. The user
> should be able to author complete applications in the language, rather
> than the language being a sublanguage.

To me it seems like requiring that one should be able to author complete
programs in regex.

Yes, when all you have is a hammer everything looks like a nail ;)

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Hannu

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