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From: Shashi K. Gadia <gadia@cs.iastate.edu>
Subject: TSQL Userfriedliness Benchmark
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Date: Tue, 8 Jun 93 14:04:23 CDT
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Mailer: Elm [revision: 70.30]
I agree with Rick, about the independence
between userfriendliness and expressiveness.
When Sunil Nair and I started this effort,
it was meant only for userfriebdliness and
I hope it maintains that focus.
In past few years I have seen very many
temporal algebras and languages: some very
timid, some outright impossible for users
to express their queries in. It is time we
stop playing with such toys. My minimum hope
of the benchmark effort is that we weed
them out.
The intention of the benchmark is not
to undermine or preempt the importance of
expressiveness. It is true that one can have
a dismal and a friendly language.
On the other hand one can have very
expressive languages with dismal
opportunities for optimization.
I am open to someone initiating an
effort for studying expressiveness.
However, I feel that it is a far more
difficult issue to tackle, as
very little research has been
done on that topic.