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[–] 0 points 2 years ago (1 child)

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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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago (1 child)

    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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