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The ultimate fantasy of every programmer is to a) invent a new language and b) force other people to use it. It’s OK, we all get it, it’s fine. But let’s be hon
by gaius 8y ago
The ultimate fantasy of every programmer is to a) invent a new language and b) force other people to use it. It’s OK, we all get it, it’s fine. But let’s be honest about our motivations...
A previous employer had RQL, "relational query language". It was between 10,000 and a million times slower than SQL depending on what you were doing (under the covers it was just generating really bad SQL). But the engineer who invented it was sufficiently well connected to get it declared the corporate standard, so...
- sudofail 8y agoI too lived the nightmare that was RQL... it was truly horrible.
- tzahola 8y agoYou two made me interested, but I couldn’t find anything about this RQL...
- sudofail 8y agoIf the OP is talking about the same RQL as I am, it was an in-house solution that basically tried to be graphql, kafka and spark solution, all in one, being built at the same time as the app meant to consume it. Horrible experience.
- nicostouch 8y agoI love this story. Please tell us more. Years before I ever read Thinking Fast and Slow I clicked on to the fact that humans are predisposed to making exceedingly poor decisions. This is such a fun example. I almost want to start a side-project based on collecting these...