From: Clifford Heath <no.spam@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T06:50:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

Chad Perrin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2007 at 01:29:18AM +0900, Olivier Renaud wrote:
>> And I thought SQL could be classified as a functionnal programming language. 
>> But yes, "describing language" seems to be an appropriate definition.
> Technically, it's a "query language".  Why come up with more names for
> it?

It's not a name, but a description. "describing" language is
not the standard term - Olivier means SQL is a "declarative"
language. But even that's only true of the standard, the actual
implementations have procedural features as well.