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I often find myself wishing that SQL had a more uniform syntax. So much of it resembles COBOL to me, with all the capital letters and "english-like" arbitrary w
by juliangregorian 12y ago
I often find myself wishing that SQL had a more uniform syntax. So much of it resembles COBOL to me, with all the capital letters and "english-like" arbitrary word order. At the same time, relational algebra exists and is very elegant, in an APL-like way. Would be very interested if there was a project to expose such an api to SQL databases.
- collyw 12y agoSQL is case insensitive. It is a bit quirky though.
- juliangregorian 12y agoTrue, but very few people write it as anything but.
- domoarevil 12y agoIndeed, something people forget sometimes leading to collation problems in the (odd) instance when CS is set.
- ris 12y agoSQLAlchemy (for python) tries to sanitize the syntax away from SQL with some level of success.