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>All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky. https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ https://www.joelonsoftware.c
by tester756 5y ago
>All non-trivial abstractions, to some degree, are leaky.
https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-abstractions/ https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2002/11/11/the-law-of-leaky-a...
- everybodyknows 5y agoFrom your link, a remarkable irony: >The SQL language is meant to abstract away the procedural steps that are needed to query a database Leaky abstractions, all the way down?
- klysm 5y agoI would definitely say SQL is leaky. Certainly not fully declarative. I think it’s important to have escape hatches though - if you have to be leaky you may as well be intentional about it.