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Disappointingly low on technical detail... For me the most interesting part of an interview with the original author of some well-established technology is when
by dunkelheit 9y ago
Disappointingly low on technical detail... For me the most interesting part of an interview with the original author of some well-established technology is when he or she is discussing something that you take for granted and says something along the lines of "oh, that thing is more of a historical accident, I would design it a bit differently today". These nuggets can really broaden your perspective, but I couldn't find any of them in this interview.
- taf2 9y agothat's because SQL is perfect obviously /kids
- maxxxxx 9y agoThat's a problem with a lot of interviews. Journalists almost always go for the "human" side but I enjoy reading about the technical evolution and how things developed. I just read a book about the development of windows NT. Same thing, a lot about people but not much about technical stuff.
- zengid 9y agoI think the main nugget is that they took Codds powerful mathematical system for defining and manipulating relations and created a simpler way to interface with it through the English keywords SELECT FROM WHERE. I see a similar thing happening in Elm, as it tries to translate Haskell/ML ideas into simpler concepts without all of the category theory.