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> COBOL actually worked pretty well for its time. It was still programmers using the language. Same story with SQL. The only things you can give people who do
by dgb23 4y ago
> COBOL actually worked pretty well for its time.
It was still programmers using the language. Same story with SQL.
The only things you can give people who don't invest a substantial amount of time and effort into the craft are markup languages and very high level (configuration) DSLs.
- edanm 4y ago> It was still programmers using the language. Same story with SQL. What are you talking about? Vast swaths of non-programmers are using SQL every day. Unless you consider anyone who writes SQL to be a programmer, in which case what you say is true by definition.