Re: Unknown SQL

In comp.databases Robert Klemme <robert.klemme_at_myview.de> wrote:
: 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? ...

I think perhaps that said '90%' of coders are simply uncomfortable & unfamiliar with *any* foreign data (foreign being 'not wholly internal to their application'). The almost equal ratio one finds when looking for programmers familiar with networking seems to support this argument. In both cases the programmer must permute from the foreign structure to the internal structure -- a distasteful task, particularly right after [s]he has just won the religious war of architecting the app! Moreover, the concept of querying a set is just not taught, or at least hardly taught as well as procedurally stepping through a linked data structure.

In simplest terms, it's another case of people refusing to think in more than one fashion. Received on Sat Jul 21 2001 - 20:01:19 CEST