alt Hacker NewsNo, database servers solve that problem. That the unnecessarily COBOL-like SQL ended up being the primary interface to them is simply an unfortunate accident of history.
No, database servers solve that problem. That the unnecessarily COBOL-like SQL ended up being the primary interface to them is simply an unfortunate accident of history.
There have to be some limitations on the language for this to work. For example, there must be no way to specify a neverending loop or to lock something and forget to unlock, an so on.