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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by vthriller on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:09PM (#20308366)
> It just means you need to switch languages when you need to use them. Which is my point.

So, what's the problem with that? I read it almost like "that doesn't mean that you never need to retrieve data, it just means you need to switch to SQL". People develop DSLs for a reason.

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Re:Red Hat Expecting X.org to “Go into Hard Maintenance Mode... by DonHopkins on Friday June 28, 2019 @04:26PM (#20308505)
Python, Perl, PHP and JavaScript don't need to fork another heavy weight process each time to perform successive SQL queries.
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