Nul : A Navigational User'S Language For A Network Structured Data Base

Summary: NUL: navigational language for a network-structured DBTG-like. Nonprocedural, hierarchical navigation via context-definitions and labelled links; separates entity designation from actions, enabling top-down traversal for non-programmers. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 2041
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 1976
Pagerank: 7.5991464e-05
Overall Rank: 3,082 | 78.59%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Claude Deheneffe
2. Henri Hennebert

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
4,935	CQLF--A Query Language for CODASYL-type Databases	1982	SIGMOD	5.8151747e-05
13,075	The Network Query Language Noah	1982	SIGMOD	4.1905499e-05

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