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Yes I read it. Lots of abstract talk about modularity and how SQL is so bad because people tend to use all caps without demonstrating how and what this whole ne
by mikkom 5y ago
Yes I read it. Lots of abstract talk about modularity and how SQL is so bad because people tend to use all caps without demonstrating how and what this whole new programming language can do better.
Note that I'm not claiming it can't do but I would be interested for the authors to point out what the actual benefits are.
All I see from their examples that clauses in Logica are much longer than SQL counterparts and that they are importing modules which (I assume) re-define already defined schemas which brings all kinds of different dependency problems that I'm not going to go in here..
- zaphar 5y agoThe document assumes you have used SQL in anger before and run into it's lack of modularity. If you haven't run into those things then you'll miss the point. But if you have then this looks really interesting.
- gweinberg 5y agoYeah, the quip about many people preferring to write SQL keywords in all caps as if that were somehow a defect of SQL struck me as being astonishingly asinine.
- da39a3ee 5y agoIgnore the upper caps thing. Have you not run into the problem that SQL cannot be written with reusable units of code? Do you not find reusable units of code to be the basis of programming?