<p>Weapons from a more civilized age.</p><p>In the late 80s, PL and DB really embraced at Brown: both Zdonik and Kanellakis chaired DBPL. Plus on the OO side: Zdonik ⭢ OODBs, Wegner ⭢ Cardelli-Wegner, William Cook ⭢ modern OO theory! Will was always influenced by that DBPL vision.</p>