Re:We Can Do Better Than SQL
by yyyk on Tuesday August 11, 2020 @09:41AM
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>The object.method(args) "won" because it is a low barrier to entry from English to Programming indeed
BASIC and C didn't have a concept of objects* , which didn't seem to hinder adoption at all.
object.method() became popular when OOP languages became popular, and that was because IDEs offered better autocompletion with that syntax.
* We could emulate objects with C in some gnarly ways. Almost no one did at the time, excluding C-with-classes/C++.
BASIC and C didn't have a concept of objects* , which didn't seem to hinder adoption at all. object.method() became popular when OOP languages became popular, and that was because IDEs offered better autocompletion with that syntax.
* We could emulate objects with C in some gnarly ways. Almost no one did at the time, excluding C-with-classes/C++.