Re:Interview with Don Chamberlin, designer of SQL
by gumby on Thursday October 12, 2017 @08:21PM
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I was glad for a transcript!
I find it interesting that the technology of the time meant it was hard to write ∀ and ∃ (though APL users seemed to go OK) and so they chose a complex syntax that reminds me of COBOL. The early database applications were business applications (SABRE being #1 I believe) so this wouldn't have been at all an unreasonable basis for SQL's syntax.
I find it interesting that the technology of the time meant it was hard to write ∀ and ∃ (though APL users seemed to go OK) and so they chose a complex syntax that reminds me of COBOL. The early database applications were business applications (SABRE being #1 I believe) so this wouldn't have been at all an unreasonable basis for SQL's syntax.