FQL: a functional query language

  • Authors:
  • Peter Buneman;Robert E. Frankel

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pa;University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Pa

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '79 Proceedings of the 1979 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1979

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Abstract

An applicative language based upon recent ideas by John Backus has been developed. The language provides a powerful formalism for the expression of complex database queries. Though currently implemented with an interface to a CODASYL system, the language employs a sufficiently general data model that use with other database management systems is possible. This paper describes the language through a number of examples and outlines its implementation.