alt Hacker NewsProcedural language fanatics have been trying for years to overturn the best declarative language for relational data.
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esafak • today at 3:16 PM
PRQL is declarative. They are just heeding the maxim "If it's broke, fix it".
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Procedural language fanatics have been trying for years to overturn the best declarative language for relational data.
PRQL is declarative. They are just heeding the maxim "If it's broke, fix it".
That would be the domain of logic programming languages like Prolog. SQL and its dialects are more for very specific and restricted applications of relational calculus, not general languages for expression of relations, conditions and categories.