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From: sakkinen@tukki.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
Newsgroups: comp.object
Subject: Re: Objective C -> Database
Keywords: databases, Objective C
Message-ID: <2687@tukki.jyu.fi>
Date: 14 Jan 90 15:20:24 GMT
References: <684@kubix.kub.nl>
Reply-To: sakkinen@jytko.jyu.fi (Markku Sakkinen)
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Organization: University of Jyvaskyla, Finland
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In article <684@kubix.kub.nl> hansw@kub.nl (Hans Weigand) writes:
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-Does anybody know about efforts to write a compiler that maps an
-object-oriented language (in particular, Objective C) to some
-relational database language (e.g, SYBASE SQL/DML). All pointers
-are welcome. 

Sounds unfeasible. For instance, I suppose relational database languages
are just too weak (not Turing-complete).
Also, their "perspective" is so very different from that of OO languages.

Markku Sakkinen
Department of Computer Science
University of Jyvaskyla (a's with umlauts)
Seminaarinkatu 15
SF-40100 Jyvaskyla (umlauts again)
Finland