For irregular verbs, the general pattern of acquisition (which I have heard about) is three stages. First, children learn the irregular forms, e.g. "ran" as the past form of "run". Second, children learn that the "-ed" suffix means past tense, and so they form words like "runned" and "ranned". Finally, children recognize that some verbs use the general "-ed" suffix, and other verbs are irregular, and at this point their language is similar to the language of an adult in this respect.
That might be part of it, but that's definitely not the whole story. In particular, there are some language errors that babies simply do not make. Likewise, there is a general pattern that all babies follow when acquiring a language. These aspects of acquisition cannot be explained by positive reinforcement alone: they are a result of general cognition or the language faculty, or they are somehow an artifact of the human language learning algorithm.
I can't speak for everyone, but I find education quite entertaining. There are times where I'll be reading Wikipedia for hours, engrossed in all the stuff there is to read about.
It's also important to note that SQL uses sets/bags as a primitive data type. In an all-purpose, Turing complete programming language, support for sets is limited or non-existent. If you want to integrate the two, you usually have to use a cursor in an all-purpose programming language, and go through all the tuples of the set one by one.
So, it's even less of a "one is better or more powerful than the other" thing. SQL is just different from all-purpose languages.
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For irregular verbs, the general pattern of acquisition (which I have heard about) is three stages. First, children learn the irregular forms, e.g. "ran" as the past form of "run". Second, children learn that the "-ed" suffix means past tense, and so they form words like "runned" and "ranned". Finally, children recognize that some verbs use the general "-ed" suffix, and other verbs are irregular, and at this point their language is similar to the language of an adult in this respect.
That might be part of it, but that's definitely not the whole story. In particular, there are some language errors that babies simply do not make. Likewise, there is a general pattern that all babies follow when acquiring a language. These aspects of acquisition cannot be explained by positive reinforcement alone: they are a result of general cognition or the language faculty, or they are somehow an artifact of the human language learning algorithm.
I can't speak for everyone, but I find education quite entertaining. There are times where I'll be reading Wikipedia for hours, engrossed in all the stuff there is to read about.
It's also important to note that SQL uses sets/bags as a primitive data type. In an all-purpose, Turing complete programming language, support for sets is limited or non-existent. If you want to integrate the two, you usually have to use a cursor in an all-purpose programming language, and go through all the tuples of the set one by one. So, it's even less of a "one is better or more powerful than the other" thing. SQL is just different from all-purpose languages.
The acting made me think that it might be a Star Wars "adult" film... you know, the kind that's "not for children".
Do we really a link to slashdot on a slashdot submission?
The story I heard was that the rain washed away the markings, but it's all just heresay...