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Re:Left to Right Programming by mamcx on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:10PM (#44945833)
> It's written that way because it stems from relational algebra,

A common misconception (that SQL is a realization of RA instead of barely based on it).

In RA, is in fact `Relation > Operator`

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Re:Left to Right Programming by sgarland on Monday August 18, 2025 @06:39PM (#44946061)
Unless I am grossly misunderstanding your notation, I have always seen RA written with the operator first. Some examples:

https://cs186berkeley.net/notes/note6/

https://web.wlu.ca/science/physcomp/ikotsireas/CP465/W1-Intr...

https://home.adelphi.edu/~siegfried/cs443/443l9.pdf

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Re:Left to Right Programming by mamcx on Tuesday August 19, 2025 @06:03PM (#44956687)
You are correct in that is the notation used, but that is not how it goes internally!
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