Re: The same thought experiment can be applied to SQL I am a fan of "Table Oriented Programming" and believe OOP forced an unfortunate shift from data-oriented

Re: The same thought experiment can be applied to SQL I am a fan of "Table Oriented Programming" and believe OOP forced an unfortunate shift from data-oriented programming to code-oriented programming. I hope the pendulum swings back. APL is intended for mostly scientific applications, but it has some nice lessons for other domains, and RDBMS may be a door into common data-oriented programming. I also believe that "Dynamic Relational" is needed to improve data-oriented mock-ups, experiments, and small-scale projects. The existing RDBMS are too "stiff" for some needs. We have dynamic programming languages, so why not for databases? Yes, there are some dynamic query languages, but they require throwing out SQL and starting from scratch, which cranks up the re-learning curve. Dynamic Relational only requires minor changes to SQL. (SQL ain't perfect, but so far a decent replacement has yet to gain traction. I'm personally a SMEQL fan.)