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There is a reason it was originally called (SEQUEL) Structured __English__ Query Language see the original paper at https://web.archive.org/web/20070926
by grandinj 6y ago
There is a reason it was originally called (SEQUEL)
Structured __English__ Query Language
see the original paper at
https://web.archive.org/web/20070926212100/http://www.almaden.ibm.com/cs/people/chamberlin/sequel-1974.pdf
- jacquesm 6y agoI didn't say anything about the name. But you made some pretty strong claims about the provenance of SQL that have - as far as I know it - no bearing on reality. The groups behind NATURAL and COBOL had nothing to do with SQL afaik.