[TUHS] cut, paste, join, etc.

M Douglas McIlroy m.douglas.mcilroy at dartmouth.edu
Wed Feb 17 11:08:13 AEST 2021


Will Senn wrote,
> join seems like part of an aborted (aka never fully realized) attempt at a text based rdb to me

As the original author of join, I can attest that there was no thought
of parlaying join into a database system. It was inspired by
databases, but liberated from them, much as grep was liberated from an
editor.

Doug


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