[TUHS] Abstractions

Wesley Parish wobblygong at gmail.com
Tue Feb 16 20:04:07 AEST 2021


Now that is an interesting idea. Did he ever get around to developing 
it? Any documents? Any experimental results? (Mind you, he'd've run into 
CJ Date's reservations on the incompleteness of SQL as a language stuck 
between relational algebra and relational calculus ... :) )

Wesley Parish

On 16/02/21 9:15 pm, Tom Ivar Helbekkmo via TUHS wrote:
> Jon Steinhart <jon at fourwinds.com> writes:
>
>> So if y'all are up for it, I'd like to have a discussion on what
>> abstractions would be appropriate in order to meet modern needs.  Any
>> takers?
> A late friend of mine felt strongly that Unix needed an SQL interface to
> the kernel.  With all information and configuration in a well designed
> schema, system administration could be greatly enhanced, he felt, and
> could have standard interaction patterns across components -- instead of
> all the quirky command line interfaces we have today, and their user
> oriented output formats that you need to parse to use the data.
>
> sysctl done right, so to speak.
>
> -tih


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