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Re:Rethinking the limits on relational databases by woah on Friday January 24, 2014 @10:54PM (#7119778)
It tries to be like english, but it is anything but. It has a complicated irregular grammar. It has an implicit structure that is hard to guess if you don't already know. People write huge bloated ORMs to try to run away from it. Your application needs to have code in it to do a bunch of string concatenation if you don't use one.

It is a bad language.

EDIT: It is completely preposterous that SQL injection is even a thing.

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Re:Rethinking the limits on relational databases by andrewflnr on Friday January 24, 2014 @11:57PM (#7119906)
Every once in a while, though, it does something really cool. The declarativeness is cool, IMO; I always appreciate inline conditionals. That's something I would want to be carried over to a replacement.
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