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Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and cont... by TylerE on Wednesday April 05, 2023 @07:02PM (#35461661)
No, that’s something bad programming languages did.

SQL is purely declarative.

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Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and cont... by butlerm on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:20AM (#35464079)
INSERT, UPDATE, and DELETE sound quite imperative to me. Not to mention DROP TABLE.
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Re:Programmer interrupted: The cost of interruption and cont... by wellanyway on Thursday April 06, 2023 @12:22PM (#35470647)
All but one sublanguages of SQL are imperative... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Data_manipulation_language
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