It's called Embedded SQL, and is part of an ISO standard [1]. At one point an em...

tannhaeuser on July 9, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Art of Metaprogramming (2005)

It's called Embedded SQL, and is part of an ISO standard [1]. At one point an embedded version of Informix translated ESQL/C to ISAM calls, without any SQL parsing and query compilation at runtime. Though I don't know what this has to do with metaprogramming as we know it today.

[1]: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embedded_SQL

gmfawcett on July 9, 2019 [–]

I had no idea that it was standardized. Thanks for sharing this!