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> Most of this opinion comes from “SQL” being vendor-specific. Is JSON vendor-specific? Is anything else, that we actually use by choice? Two things that come
by vbsteven 5y ago
> Most of this opinion comes from “SQL” being vendor-specific. Is JSON vendor-specific? Is anything else, that we actually use by choice?
Two things that come to mind are Markdown with all its flavors and Regex with multiple engines.
edit: and to a lesser extent maybe C/C++ compilers and JS engines.
edit2: also JVM, Python and Ruby runtimes
But both edits describe technologies with an official spec and slightly different implementations. Markdown/Regex are more comparable to SQL because they have vendor-specific syntax.
- Kinrany 5y agoCommonMark and ECMAScript+bundlers exist, so it's very easy to write Markdown and JS against a standard and be interpreter-agnostic. SQL standard only covers the basics and is only useful to humans, not machines.