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Jos JongVertically Integrated Architectureshttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4252-0_9

9. Persistence-Aware Programming

Jos Jong1 
(1)
AMSTELVEEN, The Netherlands
 

Computer languages differ not so much in what they make possible, but in what they make easy.

—Larry Wall

The vertically integrated architecture advocated in this book rests on three pillars:

  • A unified conceptual data model

  • Implicit services

  • A persistence-aware programming language

By now, I have covered the first two. It’s time to explore what an accompanying programming language could look like. We’ve already created a foundation for this with the query language presented earlier. By extending this with such concepts as functions, variables, and control flow, we can mold ...

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