On 2/16/21 7:08 PM, M Douglas McIlroy wrote:
> 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
Nice! Thanks Doug. Too bad, though... one gets ever tired of having to 
log into db's and a simple text db system would be useful. Even sqlite, 
which I love, requires login to get at information... I'm already logged 
in, why can't I just ask for my info and have it returned?

Will