On 3 Oct 2003 21:39:03 GMT, Christopher Browne <cbbrowne@acm.org>
wrote:
>There are two notable 'projects' out there:
>
> 1. There's Darwen and Date's "Tutorial D" language, defined as part
> of their "Third Manifesto" about relational databases.
>
> 2. newSQL <http://newsql.sourceforge.net/>, where they are studying
> two syntaxes, one based on Java, and one based on a
> simplification (to my mind, oversimplification) of SQL.
ISTR that Terry Halpin (of ORM fame) designed a language named
"ConQuer". I don't know the details, but I think Date's latest
edition refers to it in a note. Halpin's working on Visio at
Microsoft now, I think.
--
Mike Sherrill
Information Management Systems