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? -- Robert Treat Build A Brighter Lamp :: Linux Apache {middleware} PostgreSQL
