On the DECsystem-10 and then later on the VAX, we used a relational database with a query/procedural language that non-technical people could actually use. And the techincal folks liked it as well. No need for a GUI for those who could understand basic English. To find records, the command was... FIND (which did not mean "find and print"). To print records, the command was, come on now... Yes, PRINT!;-) And none of the redundancy of SQL. There was an attitude that if you were working with a table or group of tables, that you'd probably continue working with them for several commands or queries. This persistence eliminates the need to constantly add "FROM bla-bla-bla" (and often "WHERE bla-bla-bla") to every command.
Short comparison (if I recall correctly):
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SELECT colname2, colname5, colname32
FROM tablename WHERE colnameX = valueY; UPDATE tablename SET colname2 = valueY WHERE colname2 = valueY; SELECT colname42, colname20, colname9 FROM tablename WHERE colname2 = valueY;
Families where deafness is common but who are in some way out of the mainstream, often develop "home signs" as a means of communicating. While often not very sophisticated, to say they knew "NO LANGUAGE at ALL" may be a bit of a stretch, unless they were the only survivors of some nuclear disaster...
There is no "official" sign language. There is American Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, British Sign Language, and any number of other sign languages. Much of American Sign Language actually came from France.
(Interesting side note for some: The manual alphabet used by Yanks differs from that used by the Brits and Aussies.)
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Dude, that's not Kyle's mom's boob. It's Cartman's ass, dude.
This sounds like it would go hand in hand with the GNUWin II Project, which puts out an ISO image full of free software for Windoze.
But where is "I'm Dreaming of a Black Mass Christmas"?
It seems that this could become a rather thorny crown...
We could have a new branch of the armed services: Army, Navy, Dentistry... fighting the War on Cavities, and the Gum War -- a.k.a. Dessert Storm.
And think about those "crazy" guys on the street ranting about the CIA transmitters in their teeth...
And it had "joins" too, using a command named MAP. Again, from memory, assuming two tables had key fields with the same names:
(It was relatively simple if the colmn names weren't the same also.)
On the DECsystem-10 and then later on the VAX, we used a relational database with a query/procedural language that non-technical people could actually use. And the techincal folks liked it as well. No need for a GUI for those who could understand basic English. To find records, the command was ... FIND (which did not mean "find and print"). To print records, the command was, come on now... Yes, PRINT! ;-) And none of the redundancy of SQL. There was an attitude that if you were working with a table or group of tables, that you'd probably continue working with them for several commands or queries. This persistence eliminates the need to constantly add "FROM bla-bla-bla" (and often "WHERE bla-bla-bla") to every command.
Short comparison (if I recall correctly):SQL
S1032
Families where deafness is common but who are in some way out of the mainstream, often develop "home signs" as a means of communicating. While often not very sophisticated, to say they knew "NO LANGUAGE at ALL" may be a bit of a stretch, unless they were the only survivors of some nuclear disaster...
There is no "official" sign language. There is American Sign Language, Australian Sign Language, British Sign Language, and any number of other sign languages. Much of American Sign Language actually came from France.
(Interesting side note for some: The manual alphabet used by Yanks differs from that used by the Brits and Aussies.)