jeff-davis

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   by jeff-davis 6y ago

   "First of all, in SQL NULL is entirely your choice - no column is forced to accept NULL values." That's not true. Aggregate functions and outer joins produce NULLs even without NULLs in your data. This absolutely can cause we
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   by jeff-davis 6y ago

   "Fixing the Billion Dollar Mistake" Option/Maybe types and exhaustive pattern matching was an amazing contribution of ML and similar languages. I would like to be able to do that in SQL, as well. NULL is arguably in much wors
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   by jeff-davis 6y ago

   The article shouldn't have brought up points about FP performance that it couldn't really support. But it's interesting content overall and that was a side point.