I hope you do try it. I'm looking for feedback. Sorry about the C#. Problem is, I'm way more productive in C# than any other language. C/C++ is just too slow to get things done and Java is still lagging. It would have taken far longer to do the SQLite C interface without .NET interop (JNI is seriously horrible). It was just the pragmatic choice.
Ultimately, I don't think it will really matter, because the role of Andl is to be platform independent. Do you care what your SQL product is written in? If Andl turns out to be a good direction, then porting the VM and libraries is a straightforward exercise. First I need to find out if it's a good idea! Regards David M Bennett FACS Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org On Sun, Jun 7, 2015 at 4:17 AM, <david at andl.org> wrote: > I've been reading this thread with great interest. It parallels the > project I've been working on: Andl. > > Andl is A New Database Language. > > Andl does what SQL does, but it is not SQL. Andl has been developed as > a fully featured database programming language following the > principles set out by Date and Darwen in The Third Manifesto. It > includes a full implementation of the Relational Model published by > E.F. Codd in 1970, an advanced extensible type system, database > updates and other SQL-like capabilities in a novel and highly expressive > syntax. > > The intended role of Andl is to be the implementation language for the > data model of an application. It is already possible to code the > business model of an application in an SQL dialect, but few people do > this because of limitations in SQL. Andl aims to provide a language > free of these problems that works on all these platforms. > > The current implementation on SQLite uses a mixture of generated SQL > and a runtime VM. User-defined types are blobs, which the VM > understands. A future implementation could generate SQLite VM code > directly instead of SQL, which would save some overhead. > > The website is andl.org. The GitHub project is > https://github.com/davidandl/Andl. It's a work in progress. Any > feedback welcomed. > ?Looks interesting. Too bad it's written in C#. I'm basically a Linux-only guy (use Windows at work under protest, so to speak). Yes, I can use Mono on Linux to compile C# and run it. And I may.? > > Regards > David M Bennett FACS > > Andl - A New Database Language - andl.org > > -- Yoda of Borg, we are. Futile, resistance is, yes. Assimilated, you will be. My sister opened a computer store in Hawaii. She sells C shells down by the seashore. If someone tell you that nothing is impossible: Ask him to dribble a football. He's about as useful as a wax frying pan. 10 to the 12th power microphones = 1 Megaphone Maranatha! <>< John McKown _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users at mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
