>>>I think the best database language should reflect how earthlings think about the data, and the best computer programming language would reflect easily the result we want get from them.
Care to expand on that? I'm developing a new database language: Andl. My starting point has been the relational model, Codd-Date-Darwen and The Third Manifesto. My (only) competitor seems to be SQL, which has a 40+ year lead. Nothing like a challenge! The question is: what should a database language do? Andl can already match or surpass SQL on database programming tasks, but is that interesting enough? What would make a database programming better, or best? Regards David M Bennett FACS Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org
