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Re: just curious:Equel

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On 03/09/2015 09:49, Andreas Perstinger wrote:
> On 2015-09-02, Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:

>> But it seems an odd thing to mention in a book about compilers, which
>> already has enough on its plate without dragging in proprietary database
>> extensions.
>
> Equel is just mentioned as an example in the introduction and the book
> doesn't "drag in proprietary database extensions".

> 4. Language extensions. These processors attempt to add capabilities to
> the language by what amounts to built-in macros. For example, the
> language Equel (Stonebraker et al. [1976]) is a database query language
> embedded in C.

It sounds like it has dragged them in. Of course it might not be 
proprietary.

> Statements beginning with ## are taken by the
> preprocessor to be database-access statements, unrelated to C, and are
> translated into procedure calls on routines that perform the database
> access."
>
>> I'd forget it.
>
> That's a pretty stupid conclusion.

Well, it depends on what the OP is after: it's not really relevant to 
compilers today (and the new edition seems to have taken my advice), and 
it's not part of C.

But it looks like it's still available if the OP desperately wants to 
use it.

-- 
Bartc

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just curious:Equel G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-09-01 22:37 -0700
  Re: just curious:Equel James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-09-02 09:56 -0400
    Re: just curious:Equel Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2015-09-02 16:03 +0100
      Re: just curious:Equel "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 08:12 -0700
        Re: just curious:Equel gordonb.d8f7l@burditt.org (Gordon Burditt) - 2015-09-02 11:09 -0500
        Re: just curious:Equel Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-09-02 17:27 +0100
          Re: just curious:Equel "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 09:36 -0700
            Re: just curious:Equel Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-09-02 17:57 +0100
              Re: just curious:Equel August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 22:34 +0200
                Re: just curious:Equel Richard Heathfield <rjh@cpax.org.uk> - 2015-09-02 21:48 +0100
                Re: just curious:Equel August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 09:31 +0200
                Re: just curious:Equel Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-06 13:29 -0700
                Re: just curious:Equel James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-09-02 17:09 -0400
                Re: just curious:Equel Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-06 13:33 -0700
                Re: just curious:Equel Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-06 12:56 -0700
                Re: just curious:Equel August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2015-09-07 10:57 +0200
                Re: just curious:Equel Jorgen Grahn <grahn+nntp@snipabacken.se> - 2015-09-07 19:29 +0000
                Re: just curious:Equel James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-09-07 15:49 -0400
                Re: just curious:Equel Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-07 23:12 -0700
                Re: just curious:Equel August Karlstrom <fusionfile@gmail.com> - 2015-09-08 10:35 +0200
                Re: just curious:Equel Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-06 13:25 -0700
                Re: just curious:Equel Ike Naar <ike@iceland.freeshell.org> - 2015-09-07 09:14 +0000
          Re: just curious:Equel Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-06 15:44 -0700
            Re: just curious:Equel Keith Thompson <kst-u@mib.org> - 2015-09-06 17:27 -0700
              Re: just curious:Equel Tim Rentsch <txr@alumni.caltech.edu> - 2015-09-08 10:49 -0700
      Re: just curious:Equel James Kuyper <jameskuyper@verizon.net> - 2015-09-02 11:49 -0400
        Re: just curious:Equel Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:02 -0700
          Re: just curious:Equel "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:08 -0700
            Re: just curious:Equel G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 16:10 -0700
  Re: just curious:Equel Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-09-02 21:30 +0100
    Re: just curious:Equel "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:37 -0700
      Re: just curious:Equel Jay Braun <lyngwyst@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:44 -0700
        Re: just curious:Equel "Rick C. Hodgin" <rick.c.hodgin@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 13:52 -0700
    Re: just curious:Equel G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 16:07 -0700
    Re: just curious:Equel Andreas Perstinger <andipersti@gmail.com> - 2015-09-03 08:49 +0000
      Re: just curious:Equel Bartc <bc@freeuk.com> - 2015-09-03 10:47 +0100
  Re: just curious:Equel G G <gdotone@gmail.com> - 2015-09-02 16:17 -0700

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