• GBU_28@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    Huh? Sql is one of the most powerful, action packed (as in you can move lots of shit with few commands) languages out there.

    It’s transferable and ubiquitous.

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      10 months ago

      powerful isn’t the same as well-structured

      it was written to be a language that anybody could read or write as well as english, which just like every other time that’s been tried, results in a language that’s exactly as anal about grammar as C or Python except now it’s impossible to remember what that structure is because adding anything to the language to make that easier is forbidden

      when you write a language where its designers were so keen for it to remain human readable that they made deleting all rows in a table the default action, i don’t think “well structured” can be used to describe it

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        10 months ago

        Disagree, the difference between “week structured” and needing to know the rules of the verbs is pretty big, to me.