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> SQL was originally designed for non-programmers SQL sounds like something from the Star Trek original series era to me. Read it with a Shatner voice: C
by davidw 9y ago
> SQL was originally designed for non-programmers
SQL sounds like something from the Star Trek original series era to me. Read it with a Shatner voice:
Computer, SELECT course WHERE klingons = 0;
- bni 9y agoAnd this is a bad thing? Sounds awesome to me, make the computer do stuff for me without specifying how.
- smt88 9y agoIt's very tedious to write and change a big query. It's really hard to read a big block of SQL. And it's bizarrely rigid about certain rules, meaning "English-like" is more of a hindrance because you're tempted to think, "This makes sense in English," even though SQL doesn't allow it.
- davidw 9y agoGood? Bad? It's just... a thing from that era. Another go-round of "I know, if it reads like English, it'll be easy to use", which in the present day manifests itself in stuff like Cucumber.
- majewsky 9y agoNow that you mentioned Star Trek, I'll probably read every SQL query ever with the voice of Commander Data.