Editing Access query language

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'''Access''', the successor to [[ENGLISH (programming language)|ENGLISH]], is an [[English language|English]]-like [[query language]] used in the [[Pick operating system]].

The original name ENGLISH is something of a misnomer, as PICK's flexible dictionary structure meant that file and attribute names could be given aliases in any natural language. For instance the command SORT could be given the alias TRIEZ, the file CUSTOMER the alias CLIENT, the attribute BALANCE the alias BILAN and the particle BY the alias PAR. This would allow the database to be interrogated using the French-language command string "TRIEZ CLIENT PAR BILAN", resulting in a list of customers by balance.

==Etomology==
The ''Access'' query (or enquiry) language is known by different names on different implementations of Pick: with ''English'', ''Info/Access'', ''Inform'' and ''Recall'' all being used.{{sfn|Bull|1991|p=xi}}

==References==

===Footnotes===
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===Sources===
* {{cite book|last=Bull|first=Malcolm|date=1991|title=ACCESS : the Pick enquiry language
      |publisher=Chapman & Hall Computing|isbn=9780412370007|ol=OL1861595M|oclc=22543402}}

==Further reading==
* {{Cite journal|last1=Bourdon|first1=Roger J.|date=1984|title=68000 and the Pick operating system
       |journal=Microprocessors and Microsystems|volume=8|issue=7|pages=357–360|doi=10.1016/0141-9331(84)90251-5|issn=0141-9331}}
* {{cite book|last1=Gallant|first1=Walter|date=1989|title=Pick access : a guide to the SMA/retrieval language
       |isbn=0-937175-41-2|publisher=O'Reilly & Associates|location=Sebastopol, CA|oclc=21506191}}

[[Category:Query languages]]


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