Talk:Alpha (programming language)

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Is there a link to any information regarding this language? CortlandKlein 02:42, 30 October 2007 (UTC)

- http://www.cs.berkeley.edu/~christos/classics/Codd72a.pdf is a copy of Codd's "Relational Completeness of Data Base Sublanguages" 1972 paper, which mentions ALPHA on page 2 with a citation to "A Data Base Sublanguage Founded on the Relational Calculus" as the defining document. Unfortunately, I can only find citation links to the latter (see http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/showciting?cid=1231470 for example). JmA (talk) 17:24, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

IBM 7950 Harvest
Is this the Alpha written for IBM 7950 Harvest? Looking at the "See also" and the categories, it seemed plausible, so I created a redirect from "Alpha (HARVEST programming language)". However, I am not very sure whether I did the right thing!&thinsp;&mdash;&thinsp;Pt&thinsp;(T) 18:00, 9 January 2011 (UTC)

- No, this could not be the Alpha language of the Harvest (1962-1976 and used for cryptanalysis) whereas Codd defined ALPHA in 1971 for database queries. JmA (talk) 17:15, 15 March 2013 (UTC)

- So somebody remove the redirect, it has been nearly 2 years in error.