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Using SQL is perfectly fine. Datalog on the other hand is absurdly hard to work with.
by 29athrowaway 2y ago
Using SQL is perfectly fine.
Datalog on the other hand is absurdly hard to work with.
- guskel 2y agoTo each their own. Others would say datalog elegant and makes it easy to compose statements whereas SQL has an ugly syntax. I mean, ORMs were invented to try to avoid writing SQL but they too have their own problems.
- sgarland 2y ago> SQL has an ugly syntax Speak for yourself. I’ve always found it to be very clear and concise. SELECT <tuples> FROM <table> [[type of] JOIN other_table ON ?, …] [WHERE ? [boolean operator], …] [ORDER BY ? [DESC]] [LIMIT ?]