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> I believe SQL is "the most deployed programming environment family in human history". SQLite is seemingly everywhere. How many computers have a browser on th
by KirinDave 8y ago
> I believe SQL is "the most deployed programming environment family in human history". SQLite is seemingly everywhere.
How many computers have a browser on them vs an interactive and instructable version of an SQL server?
- eesmith 8y agoYou'll need to define some terms here. What is a "programming environment family"? Does BASIC in its various forms count? That includes Visual Basic and VBA. Do people need to use it, or could it just be sitting there, like BASICA.EXE on an old MS-DOS distribution? For that matter, the DOS shell is still hanging on, and it's a programming environment. Most people use browsers on a smart phone or pad, with (as I understand it) no access to a programming environment. SQLite is not a server.
- KirinDave 8y agoI think that BASIC might actually be the dark horse I haven't considered here! Nice! I wonder if the fact that it isn't shipped on the other platforms evens that out though. I just pulled out my surface book and Basic doesn't seem to be on my command line. I wonder if that's unique. > SQLite is not a server. Did I imply it was? SQLite is not a programming environment when shipped, either. An SQL server with a sufficiently large editor buffer might be able to squeak by as one.
- jimbokun 8y agoMost of those web browsers embed SQLite: https://www.quora.com/Which-browsers-support-SQLite-How-universal-is-it https://www.quora.com/Which-browsers-support-SQLite-How-univ... Which I think is available interactively through Javascript? (To lazy to research further right now.)