| From: | Rob Sargent <robjsargent(at)gmail(dot)com> |
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| To: | Guyren Howe <guyren(at)gmail(dot)com>, Merlin Moncure <mmoncure(at)gmail(dot)com> |
| Cc: | FWS Neil <neil(at)fairwindsoft(dot)com>, Michael Nolan <htfoot(at)gmail(dot)com>, "pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org" <pgsql-general(at)lists(dot)postgresql(dot)org> |
| Subject: | Re: The tragedy of SQL |
| Date: | 2021-09-16 23:31:36 |
| Message-ID: | e6134e41-d2e3-2585-f808-f6f52917bcc5@gmail.com |
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> Missing my original point here. The set theory is the _point_. SQL is
> a gargantuan distraction from using it efficiently.
>
> Imagine if COBOL was the only widely-available programming language
> with functions. You might use it, because functions are really great
> abstraction for programming. That wouldn’t mean that COBOL wasn’t an
> utterly awful language.
>
> SQL is like that, only for relations, sets and logic.
Is "like that" how, exactly?
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