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Re:James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle by rbanffy on Wednesday September 22, 2010 @06:45PM (#1717838)
Perhaps with 2010 style C ;-)

But maybe, just maybe, I would first connect Oracle's prodigious moneyduct into a team writing a kick-ass Lisp compiler and then writing the best RDBMS using Lisp.

One can dream...

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Re:James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle by mahmud on Thursday September 23, 2010 @02:44AM (#1718817)
Not an RDBMS, but AllegoGraph is in Lisp and is the most high-end NoSQL out there. Literally, the Oracle of object stores.
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Re:James Gosling: Why I Quit Oracle by gaius on Thursday September 23, 2010 @09:37AM (#1719555)
If you have an Oracle to hand, have a look at TNSNAMES.ORA and LISTENER.ORA. Greenspun's law applies...
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