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So what's the closest language/language subset that fits this ?
by petra 11y ago
So what's the closest language/language subset that fits this ?
- jeletonskelly 11y agoSQL
- justinlardinois 11y agoThis is definitely true, and why I had more than a few stumbles learning it after I was already an experienced programmer. Case insensitivity in string comparisons is a good example. It makes perfect sense to a non-programmer but is not at all what a programmer would expect.
- alayne 11y agoWhat case insensitivity are you referring to?
- defen 11y agoMySQL with default collation / locale / operators does case insensitive string comparison IIRC
- justinlardinois 11y agoExactly. Something like 'P' = 'p' evaluates to true.
- eru 11y agoYou might like Functional Relational Programming. See http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1446 http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/1446
- brians 11y agoGood question. Racket tries, and because it's Scheme gets a good part of the way. Mozart/Oz tries, with a different basis, and gets somewhere good. Visual Basic also seems quite close, especially with features like Linq.
- Splines 11y ago> Visual Basic also seems quite close Honest question - what is there about Visual Basic that makes you say this? I've written small programs with it and on the surface it feels close to "C# if someone changed all the keywords".