Re: Unknown SQL
Date: Sun, 22 Jul 2001 16:15:18 GMT
Message-ID: <3b5afaeb.1679543_at_news.mindspring.com>
"Carl Rosenberger" <carl_at_db4o.com> hunched over a computer, typing
feverishly;
thunder crashed, "Carl Rosenberger" <carl_at_db4o.com> laughed madly,
then wrote:
>Todd Gillespie wrote:
>> > > It's amazing, but SQL remains a terrific secret to about 90% of the
>> > > developers out there, ...
>> : interesting point. but why is that so? is there no need for SQL aware
>> : coders? are they afraid of SQL's "complexity" - or let me rephrase
>> : that: do they have problems with a way of thinking different from the
>> : procedural view of programming languages? is it too difficult? are
>> : there only bad tutorials? ...
>>
>> [...]
>>
>> In simplest terms, it's another case of people refusing to think in more
>> than one fashion.
>
>Yes, this is probably very true. Thinking in SQL compares to thinking in
>objects like eating with a spoon compares to eating with chopsticks.
>
I don't really find that to be true.
SQL is just another language. If you're working with databases in whatever form, you already know the underlying language.
Thinking of a bookstore for instance:
"The set of all books"
"The set of all books whose names include the words 'Harry Potter'"
"The set of all books whose subject includes 'Harry Potter'"
It's got a fairly small vocabulary.
>Typically we do program with objects, though. Every additional "fashion" or
>flavour of thinking complicates our business.
>
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