On Feb 18, 2015, at 3:13 PM, Roger Binns <rogerb at rogerbinns.com> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 02/18/2015 11:43 AM, Richard Hipp wrote: >> but I think the truth is we are probably stuck with SQL for a while >> yet. > > In theory there could be an intermediate representation form (like > compilers do) that is publicly available, with the (now optional) SQL > part producing IR, as well as any other query language > implementations. The LLVM project is an example of doing a design > like this. SQLite kind of already does this, if you consider VDBE instructions to be an IR. I?ve often wondering how difficult it would be to put a new front-end on SQLite to parse Tutorial D (or some other ?true relational? language) and generate VDBE instructions. -j -- Jay A. Kreibich < J A Y @ K R E I B I.C H > "Intelligence is like underwear: it is important that you have it, but showing it to the wrong people has the tendency to make them feel uncomfortable." -- Angela Johnson
