On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 4:17 AM, <david at andl.org> wrote: > I've been reading this thread with great interest. It parallels the project > I've been working on: Andl. > > Andl is A New Database Language. > > Andl does what SQL does, but it is not SQL. Andl has been developed as a > fully featured database programming language following the principles set > out by Date and Darwen in The Third Manifesto. It includes a full > implementation of the Relational Model published by E.F. Codd in 1970, an > advanced extensible type system, database updates and other SQL-like > capabilities in a novel and highly expressive syntax. > > The intended role of Andl is to be the implementation language for the data > model of an application. It is already possible to code the business model > of an application in an SQL dialect, but few people do this because of > limitations in SQL. Andl aims to provide a language free of these problems > that works on all these platforms. > > The current implementation on SQLite uses a mixture of generated SQL and a > runtime VM. User-defined types are blobs, which the VM understands. A > future > implementation could generate SQLite VM code directly instead of SQL, which > would save some overhead. > > The website is andl.org. The GitHub project is > https://github.com/davidandl/Andl. It's a work in progress. Any feedback > welcomed. >
?Looks interesting. Too bad it's written in C#. I'm basically a Linux-only guy (use Windows at work under protest, so to speak). Yes, I can use Mono on Linux to compile C# and run it. And I may.? > > Regards > David M Bennett FACS > > Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org > > -- Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore. If someone tell you that nothing is impossible: Ask him to dribble a football. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown
