16 Feb
2021
16 Feb
'21
4:04 p.m.
Now that is an interesting idea. Did he ever get around to developing
it? Any documents? Any experimental results? (Mind you, he'd've run into
CJ Date's reservations on the incompleteness of SQL as a language stuck
between relational algebra and relational calculus ... :) )
Wesley Parish
On 16/02/21 9:15 pm, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS wrote:
Jon Steinhart <jon(a)fourwinds.com> writes:
So if y'all are up for it, I'd like to
have a discussion on what
abstractions would be appropriate in order to meet modern needs. Any
takers?
A late friend of mine felt strongly that Unix needed an SQL interface to
the kernel. With all information and configuration in a well designed
schema, system administration could be greatly enhanced, he felt, and
could have standard interaction patterns across components -- instead of
all the quirky command line interfaces we have today, and their user
oriented output formats that you need to parse to use the data.
sysctl done right, so to speak.
-tih