"I wonder if we just have a generation of programmers who can't think in SQL." And they don't even teach set theory in elementary school anymore like they did

"I wonder if we just have a generation of programmers who can't think in SQL." And they don't even teach set theory in elementary school anymore like they did in the early seventies, which may be among the root causes of the malaise. Understanding things like relational databases and conditional probabilities is so much easier if you have been taught a solid foundation from early on.