On Friday 09 June 2006 12:39, David Fetter wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 09, 2006 at 12:29:59PM -0400, A.M. wrote:
> > >> Yes, and all SQL products worth their salt include some languages
> > >> to provide iteration and other processing that SQL can't do or
> > >> doesn't do well. Why must the rules be different for a truly
> > >> relational db. (see http://dbappbuilder.sourceforge.net/Rel.html)
> > >
> > > I may get interested if some actual software which implements
> > > Date's Relational Model ever comes out. Or I may not, as I am
> > > getting lots of useful work done using SQL and friends. We
> > > empiricists are like that.
> >
> > You mean like the Java software I pointed out in the link above?
> > It's an implementation of Tutorial D.
>
> Do let me know when somebody uses it. :)
>
So "as an empiricist", you have derived that programming in PHP, hitting a
mysql backend, atop a Windows OS, is far better than that wonky
perl/postgresql/linux stuff you normally work with, right?
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Robert Treat
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