23 Nov
2007
23 Nov
'07
3:42 p.m.
On Friday 23 November 2007 17:57, der Mouse wrote:
Hey! I don't know RPG or dbase, but I have learnt a bit of SQL, and I
don't think it's unfair to think, or speak, of working with SQL as
programming. It's a rather unusual language, mostly declarative rather
than imperative, and somewhat specialized, but it certainly demands
many of the same skills and mindsets as programming in more
conventional languages, and it's not all _that_ outr? a language.
Well, if SQL is a language that might need the sophistication of say c or
Pascal or similar, then dbase would be on about the same level as BASIC...
--
Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and
ablest -- form of life in this section of space, ?a critter that can
be killed but can't be tamed. ?--Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters"
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Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James
M Dakin
This reminds me of folks I used to run into back in
the day that
considered themselves "programmers" -- in dbase!
or RPG,
or SQL