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In general, if something has been around for a very long time and nobody apparently seems to have thought to improve it, then odds are the reason is it's pretty
by marginalia_nu 3y ago
In general, if something has been around for a very long time and nobody apparently seems to have thought to improve it, then odds are the reason is it's pretty good and genuinely hard to improve on.
- aae42 3y agoin other words, SQL is a shark, not a dinosaur
- realanswe91 3y agoThe Shark Query Language
- fbdab103 3y agoCodd himself had loads of complaints about SQL.
- oblio 3y agoWell, if you think about it, a huge percentage of dinosaurs survived (birds), and for the rest, can you really fault them for going extinct when a humongous boulder hit the planet?
- runlaszlorun 3y ago> pretty good and genuinely hard to improve on I think that might be a bit more positive than I would be. Broadly speaking, I think you could say that the downsides of the legacy technology in question aren’t larger than the collective switching costs. But I’d definitely agree that when something has been around that long, it’s prob not all bad.
- SoftTalker 3y agoBecause SQL is a good query language, if you bother to really learn it.