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I would like a language more like Tutorial D; strictly set based (none of SQL's bags); without SQL's terrible, awful, no-good very bad 4GL syntax (I'd like some

by jfb 12y ago

I would like a language more like Tutorial D; strictly set based (none of SQL's bags); without SQL's terrible, awful, no-good very bad 4GL syntax (I'd like something terser and more mathematical). It would be closed over composition, for instance, and would map more directly onto the relational calculus.

Shorel 12y ago
Do you have any documents or RFC links about this language? I'm sure an specification is gladly appreciated.
- dragonwriter 12y ago
  "Tutorial D", a particular pedagogical instance of a defined class of languages, is defined here: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/Tutorial%20D-2013-05-23.pdf http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/Tutorial%20D-2013-05-... The requirements list for any "D" (that is, the definition of membership in the class of languages) is here in The Third Manifesto: http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/TTM-2013-02-07.pdf http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~hugh/TTM/TTM-2013-02-07.pdf
  - Shorel 12y ago
    And yet another name collision for the D language. It should have been Mars.