17 Feb
2021
17 Feb
'21
7:16 a.m.
On 2/16/21 7:08 PM, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
Will Senn wrote,
Nice! Thanks Doug. Too bad, though... one gets ever tired of having to
log into db's and a simple text db system would be useful. Even sqlite,
which I love, requires login to get at information... I'm already logged
in, why can't I just ask for my info and have it returned?
Will
join seems like part of an aborted (aka never
fully realized) attempt at a text based rdb to me
As the original author of join, I
can attest that there was no thought
of parlaying join into a database system. It was inspired by
databases, but liberated from them, much as grep was liberated from an
editor.
Doug