[Please do not mail me a copy of your followup] Michael Shepanski <mps@optusnet.com.au> spake the secret code <53C8D486.4090006@optusnet.com.au> thusly:
The thing that amazes me most is that we are such a small club. When I read things online about how ORM is "the Vietnam of computer science", and the way people seemed to have coined the phrase "impedance mismatch" specifically to mean "I'm sad because I can't write queries in my programming language", I wonder why everyone isn't attempting this.
They've been doing it in .NET for quite a while with LINQ: <http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb397926.aspx> ...but it required changes to the .NET runtime and the language syntax; it wasn't provided as an EDSL. -- "The Direct3D Graphics Pipeline" free book <http://tinyurl.com/d3d-pipeline> The Computer Graphics Museum <http://computergraphicsmuseum.org> The Terminals Wiki <http://terminals.classiccmp.org> Legalize Adulthood! (my blog) <http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com>