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Is this a joke? The language used certainly seems inadequate. Other than that, aren't there already other "completely relational" systems like Dataphor (and so

by Padding 12y ago

Is this a joke? The language used certainly seems inadequate. Other than that, aren't there already other "completely relational" systems like Dataphor (and some arcane IBM products) .. that failed to gain traction?

siddboots 12y ago
It doesn't seem to be a joke, but yes, it does come across as little more than a loose collection of thoughts, based only on the author's experience with extant SQL implementations, and ignoring the entire body of literature in this area. With that said, I think that there are some solid ideas in there. The concept of higher-order relational programming is something that I'm personally fascinated by, and to my knowledge it has been neglected historically. Sometimes any discussion is good discussion :)