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Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show"

Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show"

Posted Mar 24, 2009 21:50 UTC (Tue) by flewellyn (subscriber, #5047)
In reply to: Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show" by skx
Parent article: Malcolm: SQL for the command line: "show"

Well, SQL is not, perhaps, the best thing every when it comes to query languages. I mean, it works okay, and it's "good enough", and I'll defend it on those grounds. But it's hardly the epitome of query languages.

Truth be told, my ideal query language would be something Lisplike, with query operations specified by functions and special operators (or macros), and "views" just being newly defined querying functions or macros.

Hmmm...now there's an idea...


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