pobox002_at_bebub.com wrote:
> Comparing programming languages to natural languages is the worst
> analogy I have come across in some time. Just because there are
> thousands of possible combinations of words that can be used to order
> the same bag of doughnuts does not mean this is a good design for a
> programming language. The amount of redundancy in SQL is already a
> problem. You just propose increasing it further.
Indeed!
Natural languages bring us irregular verbs, messy grammar, synonyms,
exceptions to all sorts of rules.
Heck if language would be a good example we would never have a flame war
in this group where each party genuinely believes to be right :-)
Aside, anytime you make the interface more complex QA cost goes up and
still quality goes down by virtue of special case code.
Needs a better reason that syntactic sugar.
Cheers
Serge
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Serge Rielau
DB2 SQL Compiler Development
IBM Toronto Lab
Received on Thu Feb 24 2005 - 10:42:42 CST
