Sujet : Re: The joy of Ada
De : ldo (at) *nospam* nz.invalid (Lawrence D'Oliveiro)
Groupes : comp.os.linux.miscDate : 28. Oct 2024, 06:09:58
Autres entêtes
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On Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:58:34 -0400,
186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
Long back I did extensive development on a PICK-OS based DB called
'Revelation'. It DID do an early version of SQL. It was used for over
a decade.
HOWEVER you never used the SQL beyond the top-level selections
because it was too slow.
Pick wasn’t even a relational database.
Back then, it was quite common to support open standards like SQL with
“malicious compliance” -- deliberately make them look worse than your
proprietary interface, to “persuade” your users to lock themselves in to
your product.
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