Persistent Programming Languages - A Survey
- Stewart M. Clamen
- Technical Report No. CMU-CS-91-155
- Carnegie Mellon University School of Computer Science, Pittsburgh, PA,
- June 1992
ABSTRACT
Database systems are primarily concerned with the creation and
maintenance of large, long-lived collections of data, while
traditional programming languages have promoted such ideas as
procedural control and data and functional abstraction. While each
provides considerable utility in their respective domains, there
exists a large number of applications that require functionality from
both database and programming language systems. To this end, there
has been serious effort over the past few years at developing systems
that integrate the basic ideas from the two domains. This paper
concentrates on research developments which have resulted in
programming languages incorporating database functionality into their
programming models, most importantly, a concept of data persistence.