On 3 Oct 2003 21:39:03 GMT, Christopher Browne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>There are two notable 'projects' out there: > > 1. There's Darwen and Date's "Tutorial D" language, defined as part > of their "Third Manifesto" about relational databases. > > 2. newSQL <http://newsql.sourceforge.net/>, where they are studying > two syntaxes, one based on Java, and one based on a > simplification (to my mind, oversimplification) of SQL. ISTR that Terry Halpin (of ORM fame) designed a language named "ConQuer". I don't know the details, but I think Date's latest edition refers to it in a note. Halpin's working on Visio at Microsoft now, I think. -- Mike Sherrill Information Management Systems ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 4: Don't 'kill -9' the postmaster