Re: The tragedy of SQL - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Mladen Gogala
Subject Re: The tragedy of SQL
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In response to Re: The tragedy of SQL  (Guyren Howe <guyren@gmail.com>)
Responses Re: The tragedy of SQL  ("Peter J. Holzer" <hjp-pgsql@hjp.at>)
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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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