[fpc-pascal] Working on a new way to educate people about pascal

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On 31/12/2022 00:41, Dennis Lee Bieber via fpc-pascal wrote:
>> Well, I understand it was originally called SEQL, E for English, but

> 	SEQUEL - Structured English QUEry Langauge.
> 
> 	At the time SQL was being developed, every database system had its own
> proprietary programming language. Often these required macro preprocessors
> to turn embedded queries into "native" programming language source.
> 
> 	The relational database model was originally a "view" of how to access
> databases, be they hierarchical (everything was a tree structure descending
> from the top-most database record) or network (lots of bidirectional
> circular linked lists connecting records to each other).

Hmmm. So that explains a lot. "Relational" sounds like it was never 
actually meant to be a database. And it shows ...

SEQUEL - by its very nature - must therefore encapsulate a lot of what 
should really be in the database but, because of the laws of "least 
common denominator", it has to provide itself because it can't guarantee 
it's in the database.

So we're stuck with the worst of both worlds. A database that was never 
intended to be one. And a language that is a massive layering violation 
containing loads of functionality that should not be there ...

:-( :-( :-(

Cheers,
Wol