a high level language

[Kirk Borne]

Masatoshi:  thank you for your message and for the information.
We will look forward to reading your JVOQL document.

- Kirk Borne


> Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:04:05 +0900
> To: voql at ivoa.net
> From: Masatoshi OHISHI <masatoshi.ohishi at nao.ac.jp>
> Subject: Re: a high level language
> 
> Dear Everyone,
> 
> I am Masatoshi Ohishi of the National Astronomical Observatory of Japan,
> and has been assigned as a coordinator to develop our common VOQL.
> 
> I was so sorry that I could not participate to your debate for the last
> several days.  I was attending to other international meeting as a delegate
> from Japanese Government, and, therefore, was unable to respond you all.
> 
> Japan has developed our own Query Language (JVO QL) based on the
> standard SQL, with some extensions to apply to astronomy. We aimed to
> DEFINE its functions, and we have not considered which language to use,
> such as XML, UML, etc.  We believe we can choose it later after we have
> defined which functions we really need to exchange query information.
> 
> Our document on JVOQL was originally written in Japanese (it's our default
> language !), and my colleague is preparing its English version. I will submit
> the document to this exploder soon.
> 
> I am looking forward to having your constructive comments to our document.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
>     Masatoshi 


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