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People ask me, "Which language should I learn first?" I always say, SQL. If you know SQL you can do more than a lot of programmers who don't know SQL and SQL ma
by chimi 14y ago
People ask me, "Which language should I learn first?" I always say, SQL. If you know SQL you can do more than a lot of programmers who don't know SQL and SQL makes for better programs too. Win-Win.
- ufo 14y agoCome on, although SQL is declarative and relational, it is still very low level, has terrible support for abstraction and has all sorts of incompatibilities depending of the database implementation you use. I can't believe we are already in the 21st century and good relational libraries are not yet the standard solution.