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Re:We Can Do Better Than SQL by feikname on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @08:40AM (#24119656)
> My pet theory about why the object.method(args) call syntax won is that it really is the most natural to read, as evidenced by the fact that most human languages follow subject-verb-object word order.

Most western languages maybe, but according to wikipedia[1] the most common is actually SOV rather than SVO.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word_order#Distribution_of_wor...

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Re:We Can Do Better Than SQL by indecisive_user on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @10:52AM (#24120869)
Most common by number of languages maybe, but if we look at most common by number of people who speak the language, the top 3 most popular languages in the world(Mandarin, Spanish, English) are all SVO.
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