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I saw them present a while back and someone in the audience asked "why SQL" stating that all innovative projects like this end up coming up with their own query
by jghn 11y ago
I saw them present a while back and someone in the audience asked "why SQL" stating that all innovative projects like this end up coming up with their own query language. The response was that everyone knows SQL so it's easy to get started and that they want to enable access from environments like Python and R for more advanced querying.
- murbard2 11y agoIn addition, SQL design is simply really good. It's of the few successful declarative language: you get what you describe. It's also a total, in that all programs terminate. These are really good characteristics to have.
- nkozyra 11y agoSQL is really good. My issue is you run into inconsistencies in the way you expect a function to work (when they're shared semantically across SQL and BQL in this case) and that eventually leads to confusion. Like working in the Arduino language versus C.