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I acknowledge the problems with SQL that the author stated, but I still prefer SQL over the alternative presented. What would be other alternatives to a declar
by haolez 7y ago
I acknowledge the problems with SQL that the author stated, but I still prefer SQL over the alternative presented.
What would be other alternatives to a declarative language like SQL? Prolog?
- esfandia 7y agoDatalog indeed is a thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datalog
- ErwinSmout 7y agoAny declarative language that does not commit the violations of the relational model that SQL does commit. Date&Darwen formally pinned down what such a language has to look like in their three subsequent editions of "the third manifesto" (first edition roundabouts 1995). There are at least two fully operational systems that comply.