A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival

Re:A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival by amw-zero on Friday October 09, 2020 @07:31PM (#24735454)

Relational algebra notation is so much more concise and readable. We’ve mangled so many very simple concepts because someone decided that math is offensive or something, so any math notation is automatically “not fit for software.”

Computing is inherently tied to math. There’s no getting away from that.

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Re:A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival by nickpeterson on Friday October 09, 2020 @09:27PM (#24736027)

There is a book, Applied Mathematics for Database professionals that uses a terse mathematical notation to describe queries and I remember actually kind of liking it. I especially like that they used it to describe the state of the database and the transforms.

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Re:A Short Story About SQL’s Biggest Rival by inopinatus on Friday October 09, 2020 @10:07PM (#24736225)

This line of thinking is how you get APL and its offspring, J & k etc.

(and just to be clear, I'm neither for or against)

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