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

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