An appealing attempt to develop an alternative to SQL is the TQL/SMEQL project that draws its inspiration from IBM's BS-12 relational query language. A functional style is among the goals.
http://www.c2.com/cgi/wiki?TqlDesignGoals On Tue, Dec 9, 2008 at 9:57 PM, Raul Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Note also that relational programming (SQL) can work quite well > in highly parallel contexts. > > The SQL standard is almost deliberately crippled, as a programming > language (for example: inner product is easy to implement, but > gauss-jordan elimination seems rather difficult), but I think that > that's a fixable issue. > > -- > Raul ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For information about J forums see http://www.jsoftware.com/forums.htm
