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What SQL shares with English (and most other natural languages) is that the rules are sometimes confusing/inconsistent/illogical, but evolution is very slow so
by em500 3y ago
What SQL shares with English (and most other natural languages) is that the rules are sometimes confusing/inconsistent/illogical, but evolution is very slow so most of us are probably stuck with the status quo during our lifetimes (career time for SQL) due to the overwhelming network effects.
- happymellon 3y agoThe problem with English is that it isn't really a single language but a mashup of Latin/French/German/Scandinavian due to the number of invasions and each invader not really covering the whole country. A simple way to demonstrate this is how we ended up with cities that have massively different pronunciation even though the spelling is similar.