Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!dev!dgis!jkrueger From: jkrueger@dgis.dtic.dla.mil (Jon) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: SQL Poser Keywords: portability Message-ID: Date: 7 Jun 90 20:22:14 GMT References: <6588@umd5.umd.edu> <1990Jun1.132731.6699@oracle.com> <1990Jun4.151555.3479@oracle.com> <548@iss-rb.SanDiego.NCR.COM> Organization: Defense Technical Information Center (DTIC), Alexandria VA Lines: 21 tgreenla@oracle.UUCP (Terry Greenlaw) writes: >>The extensions that Oracle and other vendors have provided >>are the driving forces that will lead to a language robust >>enough to be used in a unextended form. benl@adt.SanDiego.NCR.COM (Ben.Lheureux) writes: >A convenient position to take, since Oracle just happens to have >one of the (perhaps THE) most robust SQL languages :-) What does "robust" mean as used above? I am familiar with robust implementations; what makes a language itself "rubust"? Ability "to be used in an unextended form"? If so, good, I need to write device drivers, "robust" SQL will be just the thing. If not, how about letting us know what you're talking about? -- Jon -- Jonathan Krueger jkrueger@dtic.dla.mil uunet!dgis!jkrueger Drop in next time you're in the tri-planet area!