16 Jul
2009
16 Jul
'09
7:51 a.m.
Sridhar Ayengar wrote:
Jules Richardson wrote:
Interesting - and no! So did it also originally stand for something (semantic
query language, maybe? :) or was it just a name picked out of a hat, or was
there some other reason it was given that name?
cheers
J.
Ethan Dicks wrote:
Are you aware that the acronym "sequel" pre-dates the abbreviation
"SQL"
by a significant amount of time? Lots of acronymitis back then. Still a lot now,
but users have had
more time to absorb some of it.
At least folk don't try to turn it back into a word, like they insist
on doing with some acronyms (e.g. "sequel", ugh). We could have ended
up with "puccumsia" :-)