It will not compose like an OO language or like a functional language because it isn't one of those. It's set-oriented. This is the biggest hangup I've seen from folk who hate SQL: mistaking it for something it isn't, never was, and was never intended to be given its problem domain.
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It will not compose like an OO language or like a functional language because it isn't one of those. It's set-oriented. This is the biggest hangup I've seen from folk who hate SQL: mistaking it for something it isn't, never was, and was never intended to be given its problem domain.