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I started studying SQL when I was a freshman in high school circa 2000, the book I had was called SQL Queries for Mere Mortals. Is this a play on that, or was t

I started studying SQL when I was a freshman in high school circa 2000, the book I had was called SQL Queries for Mere Mortals. Is this a play on that, or was that title an homage to something even earlier?

outside1234 5y ago
I think it is a slight swipe at how complicated the Materialize OSS projects make everything in this space sound
- thelastbender12 5y ago
  That is because doing incremental computation efficiently is complicated! I'd think the project idea is that differential dataflow is too useful a technology to only be understood by a few people. By writing it a second time around, it might be feasible to trade off some of its power for a more lean and accessible implementation.
- FridgeSeal 5y ago
  To be fair, whilst the underlying theory is pretty conceptually straightforward (as illustrated here), fully-featured/non-toy implementations, especially when it intersects with a database are somewhat more complex.
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z3t4 5y ago
It's a saying that you do not have to be a genius to understand it. For example the em edtior (editor for mere mortals) where you could see what you wrote on the screen instead of having to keep it all in your head... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vi