Thanks for pointing it out, but I knew that the best way to show off a
language is with examples. That's why there are nine sample Andl scripts
comprising dozens of individual examples in the Samples folder. My guess is
if that you're asking me to write examples, the real lesson is that I didn't
make them easy enough to find.

I have a formal grammar, but I don't expect anyone to read that. More and
better examples is the way to go.

Regards
David M Bennett FACS

Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org
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Subject: Re: [sqlite] User-defined types -- in Andl


On 8 Jun 2015, at 3:12am, <david at andl.org> <david at andl.org> wrote:

> Is there a PDF? No, but that's a good idea. Did you check out the samples?
> They cover the entire language, and I could turn those into a PDF much 
> faster than a real language. It would take about a month to write a 
> decent tutorial and reference, but that might make a good shortcut.

My guess is that, if your objective is to attract readers, your time will be
best spent composing a few examples.  Formal grammar will be needed in the
long run but only the real geeks will read it.  Many people can read a few
examples and figure out whether it's worth investigating the language
further, whereas a formal grammar or a full tutorial would take more time to
read than they would be willing to invest.

Simon.
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