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What I Hate About Your Programming Language

Posted by michael on from the let-me-count-the-ways dept.

chromatic writes "Perl programmers like punctuation. Python programmers like indentation. Every programming language has its own syntax, stemming from its philosophy. What I Hate About Your Programming Language examines the issues that shape languages as they grow. It's not advocacy, I promise."

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  1. SQL and then stop? by Tablizer · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I find it odd that there are a jillion programming languages for procedural and OOP, and several for functional. However, I do not see a lot of competition for relational query languages. Why does everybody seem satisfied with SQL?

    SQL sucks IMO (as far as relational languages go). It is the COBOL of relational languages. I would like to see more competition there. I kinda like the BS-12 approach pioneered by IBM in the early days of relational but dropped. Some like "Tutorial-D" by Chris Date, but I don't like the infix syntax.

    Relational languages are virgin terrority for those who like making Yet Another Language. Why trod where everybody else has? Lets move beyond SQL.

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