ILL: an English structured query language for relational data bases

Authors:
Michel Lacroix;Alain Pirotte
Affiliations:
MBLE Research Laboratory, avenue Van Becelaere, Brussels (Belgium);MBLE Research Laboratory, avenue Van Becelaere, Brussels (Belgium)
Venue:
ACM SIGART Bulletin
Year:
1977

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Abstract

A retrieval language for relational data bases is presented and its similarity, both syntactic and semantic, with a particular form of queries in English is shown. A definition of the essential features of the language is given and it is illustrated with examples. Queries in ILL always have a straightforward paraphrase in English.