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- From: Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu>
- Newsgroups: alt.hackers
- Subject: Re: NL->SQL
- Date: 23 Aug 1992 02:27:09 GMT
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
- Lines: 11
- Approved: jym@nli.com
- Message-ID: <176t1tINN3u8@agate.berkeley.edu>
- References: <1992Aug10.065550.5907@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- In-reply-to: kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu's message of 10 Aug 92 06:55:50 GMT
- Originator: jym@remarque.berkeley.edu
-
- > Hack: Writing most of a natural language to SQL front end in
- > a few hours, and have it compile and run correctly the very
- > first time!
-
- =o= Uh huh. Of course, "correctly" can be a very subjective
- concept. How well do you think it would fare against Natural
- Language Inc.'s regression test suite? :-)
- <_Jym_>
-
- ObHack: Loading NLI-Lisp into Emacs, yielding Emacs-Lisp with
- an English SQL interface.
-