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janderlandtoday at 10:45 AM3 repliesview on HN

SQL is a horrible language. I’d gladly program in something composable like Elm.


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ch4s3today at 10:56 AM

Unfortunately Evan removed GROUP BY in 0.19 and left to buy cigarettes.

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tclancytoday at 11:07 AM

As a programming language? Sure. As a way to work with relational data? It may be my favorite "language" across all domains because of the terse beauty. I am a self-taught, no CS coder but SQL is the one place where I feel like I get all the math I should know.

An opinionated, possibly hot take would be to call SQL "A more elegant weapon of a civilized age".

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ModernMechtoday at 12:13 PM

Maybe so, but my father in law, who is a salesman and knows nothing about computers and programming still knows SQL.

SQL is a horrible language in the same way Excel is -- programmers hate it but the what makes it a horrible programming language to developers is what makes it accessible to non programmers.