Human Factors Comparison of a Procedural and a Nonprocedural Query Language

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Article

Publication Date

12-1-1981

Publication Title

ACM Transactions on Database Systems

Abstract

Two experiments testing the ability of subjects to write queries in two different query languages were run. The two languages, SQL and TABLET, differ primarily in their procedurality; both languages use the relational data model, and their Halstead levels are similar. Constructs in the languages which do not affect their procedurality are identical....

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