| From: | Mladen Gogala <gogala(dot)mladen(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com>, pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org |
| Subject: | Re: The tragedy of SQL |
| Date: | 2021-09-14 21:01:40 |
| Message-ID: | d1a134d7-84bf-83db-65a7-33fa64d7bdaf@gmail.com |
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On 9/14/21 15:57, Guyren Howe wrote:
> Verbosity. Redundancy. Lack of orthogonality. Resemblance to English.
Verbosity is a feature, as well as the resemblance to English. The
language is meant to be understood by accountants. Once upon a time
people were using something called "COmmon Business Oriented Language"
which was also very verbose, for the same reason: it had to be
understandable to the business people. SQL is written by the people with
the background in mathematics and is thus more understandable for the
people with background in mathematics. I have no problem with SQL.
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Mladen Gogala
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