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> "we didn’t realize how truly awful SQL was or would turn out to be (note that it’s much worse now than it was then, though it was pretty bad right from the ou
by cbm-vic-20 4y ago
> "we didn’t realize how truly awful SQL was or would turn out to be (note that it’s much worse now than it was then, though it was pretty bad right from the outset)."
I wish the "truly awful" stuff I come up with was 0.1% as successful as SQL.
- ErwinSmout 4y agoAnd Tony Hoare probably wished he hadn't made his "billion dollar mistake". But at any rate, you could also try and ponder how unbelievably exceptionally awful it must have been that existed before SQL if something as truly awful as SQL could still be as successful as it has been.