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IMO you need to see how the SELECT queries are 100% functional to understand properly the power of it which is based on its relational algebra and the closure p
by lkuty 3y ago
IMO you need to see how the SELECT queries are 100% functional to understand properly the power of it which is based on its relational algebra and the closure property of that algebra. Then the basic relational algebra was augmented with a lot of stuff but it's still functional in the end.
- bob1029 3y agoThis is my perspective as well. I look at SQL as a defacto functional-relational programming language precisely as advertised in Out of the Tar Pit - Chapter 9.