User:MikeSy

Chartered Accountant, qualified in 1957.

Programmer, initially in machine code for the Ferranti Pegasus (computer), from 1958. Interested in higher level programming languages: (Cobol in 1961, PL/I from 1964, the APL programming language from 1978-84). Member of British Standards Institution committee on programming languages 1970, chairman 1975-78. Interested in (mainly relational) database from 1970, member of UK and ISO committees on conceptual schema, 1978-81, and on database languages (responsible for standardisation of SQL) from 1986.

 The trouble with people is not that they don't know '' but that they know so much that ain't so. - Josh Billings''