"Bit Byter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I would like to know what the underlying SQL statement will look > like, so that I can use this knowlege to build a generic parser that > creates SQL statements from the "English like" text, using the > syntax I described above.
I seem to recall that Lotus tried doing this once upon a time with trying to build an "english-like" interface for doing "business intelligence-like" queries against spreadsheets. Nobody likely remembers HAL; it was underwhelmingly useful. In effect, anyone that was skilful enough at composing "English-like" queries to get HAL to work was likely to find the "native" methods more convenient. -- let name="cbbrowne" and tld="acm.org" in String.concat "@" [name;tld];; http://cbbrowne.com/info/linuxxian.html "La Cicciolina [...] Electing her was an interesting contrast to the situation in the UK: In Italy they elect a representative from the sex industry. In the UK, they elect their clients." -- Peter Gutmann ---------------------------(end of broadcast)--------------------------- TIP 1: if posting/reading through Usenet, please send an appropriate subscribe-nomail command to [EMAIL PROTECTED] so that your message can get through to the mailing list cleanly
