15.12. Summary
Few of the challenges of creating a query language lie in writing the parser. The first challenge is that you must have an engine that can prove a query. For this, you can use the engine in sjm.engine, or you can write your own or find one from another source. An interesting project would be to use an engine from a commercial database, although database vendors typically do not make their engines easily accessible.
Once you have an engine, developing a practical query language requires you to engineer a scheme for feeding the engine. First, you must be able to translate a user query into an engine. This requires writing your parser, its associated assemblers, and typically a query builder. You also need query structures for each ...
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