Timeline for Why aren't databases integrated as a language feature?
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| Mar 9, 2015 at 21:08 | comment | added | Steve Jessop | @sal: presumably it would be for a similar reason why regular expressions or floating point are bundled into some languages when APIs can do it. Because someone was writing a language and decided they're sufficiently fundamental to warrant special syntax. Of course, that's such a generic reason as to not be a useful answer ;-) | |
| Jan 6, 2015 at 0:31 | comment | added | Damian Yerrick |
@sal So that distributors of applications don't have to bundle a huge DBMS just to gain atomic writes and consistency checking to their caches, search indexes, etc. This is why SQLite exists: "to compete with fopen()".
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| Dec 3, 2010 at 14:51 | comment | added | sal | @Macneil, ORM tools do that now. What should it be bolted into the language when APIs can do it? | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 6:01 | comment | added | Macneil | Because you'd want the benefits of type checking and even simple name checking, when you are working across the boundaries of the query language and the programming language. | |
| Dec 3, 2010 at 5:58 | history | answered | Jason Baker | CC BY-SA 2.5 |