17 Apr
2006
17 Apr
'06
2:33 a.m.
"Steve Hutton" <shutton@featurecomplete.com> wrote in message news:e1u597$iop$1@sea.gmane.org...
- SQL is an ANSI standard, and it is universally known by every db developer and database administrator. It is taught in schools and entire books are written about it.
SQL is also an ISO standard. That is very imporant from the standpoint of the C++ committee. C++ is an ISO standard, so it can easily reference other ISO standards. For SQL, that means that the C++ Standard doesn't have to specify how SQL works - instead it just says "see ISO standard such-and-such". That keeps the LWG, the project editor, and utilimately the gnomes of Geneva all happy. --Beman