Access query language
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Access, the successor to ENGLISH, is an English-like query language used in the Pick operating system.
The original name ENGLISH is something of a misnomer, as PICK's flexible dictionary structure meant that file and attribute names could be given aliases in any natural language. For instance the command SORT could be given the alias TRIEZ, the file CUSTOMER the alias CLIENT, the attribute BALANCE the alias BILAN and the particle BY the alias PAR. This would allow the database to be interrogated using the French-language command string "TRIEZ CLIENT PAR BILAN", resulting in a list of customers by balance.
Etymology
The Access query (or enquiry) language is known by different names on different implementations of Pick: with English, Info/Access, Inform and Recall all being used.Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'Module:Footnotes/anchor_id_list' not found.
References
Footnotes
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Sources
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bull, Malcolm (1991). ACCESS : the Pick enquiry language. Chapman & Hall Computing. ISBN 9780412370007. OCLC 22543402. OL 1861595M.
Further reading
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Bourdon, Roger J. (1984). "68000 and the Pick operating system". Microprocessors and Microsystems. 8 (7): 357–360. doi:10.1016/0141-9331(84)90251-5. ISSN 0141-9331.
- Page Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css has no content.Gallant, Walter (1989). Pick access : a guide to the SMA/retrieval language. Sebastopol, CA: O'Reilly & Associates. ISBN 0-937175-41-2. OCLC 21506191.
