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- From: kxs5829@ultb.isc.rit.edu (K.X. Saunders )
- Subject: Re: NL->SQL
- Message-ID: <1992Aug23.154730.3236@ultb.isc.rit.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug10.065550.5907@ultb.isc.rit.edu> <176t1tINN3u8@agate.berkeley.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 Aug 1992 15:47:30 GMT
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- In article <176t1tINN3u8@agate.berkeley.edu> Jym Dyer <jym@mica.berkeley.edu> writes:
- >> 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? :-)
-
- Well, I've never seen it. Is there something similar available for
- ftp?
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- >ObHack: Loading NLI-Lisp into Emacs, yielding Emacs-Lisp with
- >an English SQL interface.
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- Mine was in C. Would you call the new system ENGLISH?
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- Emacs
- Now
- Gobbles even
- Larger
- Increments of
- System
- Heap
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- - Kyle
-
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