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-;; This file provides a sql-mode and a sql-interactive-mode. My goals
-;; were two simple modes providing syntactic hilighting. The
-;; interactive mode had to provide a command-line history; the other
-;; mode had to provide "send region/buffer to SQL interpreter"
-;; functions. "simple" in this context means easy to use, easy to
-;; maintain and little or no bells and whistles.
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+
+;; This file provides a sql-mode and a sql-interactive-mode. The
+;; original goals were two simple modes providing syntactic
+;; highlighting. The interactive mode had to provide a command-line
+;; history; the other mode had to provide "send region/buffer to SQL
+;; interpreter" functions. "simple" in this context means easy to
+;; use, easy to maintain and little or no bells and whistles. This
+;; has changed somewhat as experience with the mode has accumulated.
+
+;; Support for different flavors of SQL and command interpreters was
+;; available in early versions of sql.el. This support has been
+;; extended and formalized in later versions. Part of the impetus for
+;; the improved support of SQL flavors was borne out of the current
+;; maintainer's consulting experience. In the past fifteen years, I
+;; have used Oracle, Sybase, Informix, MySQL, Postgres, and SQLServer.
+;; On some assignments, I have used two or more of these concurrently.