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"My hope is that python will serve as a "gateway drug" to other languages like ruby, ML, C/C++, SQL" Your inclusion of SQL in that list really shows you have n
by timb07 8y ago
"My hope is that python will serve as a "gateway drug" to other languages like ruby, ML, C/C++, SQL"
Your inclusion of SQL in that list really shows you have no idea what you're talking about.
- rs86 8y agoSQL is immensely successful.
- talltimtom 8y agoYea, so is HTML, but if someones list of useful programming languages went C#, HTML, ruby, SQL. You would have to admit too that you would consider that person very inexperianced. It’t like listing a blender in a list of your favorite power tools. It’s not that it’s not useful for what it does, it just doesn’t belong in that particular comparison.
- ianai 8y agoSQL stands for standardized query language.
- grzm 8y agoIt was originally SEQUEL (Structured English Query Language) and then changed to SQL (Structured Query Language) due to acronym conflict with Hawker Siddeley's trademark. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SQL#History
- webmaven 8y agoSQL certainly is a programming language. It is a member of the declarative family of languages (eg. like Regular Expressions, or Prolog), rather than an imperative/procedural one.