Jean Morissette <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Hi, > > SQL has a lot of problems; it is incomplete, unfriendly, unsound, too > huge, confusing, inconsistent, etc. [1, 2, 3] It is the more ugly > language that I ever see.
That's your opinion. > For many reasons, it seems that no DBMS vendor is interested to create > a better language. Actually, it has been tried a number of times, but has never succeeded (much). > So my question: why don't we - the open source > community - take the lead and create a new language that could be the > basis for a future standard? It has been tried. And many people out there are still trying, hard. If you want to try as well, please do. Somehow though, I don't think you'll find much support for your cause in the Derby community. Derby is, after all, a very SQL-centered RDBMS. If SQL is "the more ugly language that I ever see", then maybe Derby isn't for you :) -- dt
