[postgis-users] Re: Database design book recommendations for the person who asked

[Martin Davis]

Chris, I'm curious - what do you see as a better alternative to SQL?

I'm not trolling here - I'm genuinely interested to hear if there are 
clearly better alternatives.

I've been quite interested in Date & Darwen's criticisms, but I felt a 
lot of them to be abstruse and nit-picky.  Personally I don't care about 
the purity of the relational paradigm, I care about being able to 
express & perform computation in the most effective way possible.  
Obviously the declarativeness of relational is an important aid to 
clarity and power, but there's also some very ugly idioms which seem to 
be required to perform relatively simply tasks.


Chris Hermansen wrote:
>   I disklike SQL a lot
>   

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Martin Davis
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