On 9/14/21 15:57, Guyren Howe wrote:
Verbosity. Redundancy. Lack of orthogonality. Resemblance to English.
Verbosity is a feature, as well as the resemblance to English. The language is meant to be understood by accountants. Once upon a time people were using something called "COmmon Business Oriented Language" which was also very verbose, for the same reason: it had to be understandable to the business people. SQL is written by the people with the background in mathematics and is thus more understandable for the people with background in mathematics. I have no problem with SQL.
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